Wahey - I got my data back, thankyou! > pvcreate -yff /dev/hda[34] > vgcfgrestore -n YourVGName /dev/hda3 > vgcfgrestore -n YourVGName /dev/hda4 > vgscan > vgchange -ay What I did, from .bash_history rm -rf /etc/lvmtab /etc/lvmtab.d /dev/pvg # I had backed up already. ~/LVM/1.0.3/tools/vgscan ~/LVM/1.0.3/pvcreate -yff /dev/hda[34] vgcfgrestore -n pvg /dev/hda3 vgcfgrestore -n pvg /dev/hda4 ~/uuid_fixer/uuid_fixer /dev/hda3 /dev/hda4 ~/LVM/1.0.3/tools/vgscan ~/LVM/1.0.3/tools/vgchange -ay mount -treiserfs /dev/pvg/1 /mnt/dat Don't know how much of that was needed... I had been playing with snapshots recently, but they didn't seem to work with my ancient (2.4.3) kernel. Could that have been the cause? Thanks! Bill _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html