Hi, I have lost a hard disk (died). I had a volume group on this disk. Now I have replaced the disk with a new one and wanted to create the old scheme on this disk: $ vgcreate datavg /dev/hdb1 vgcreate -- directory /dev/datavg already exists As you can see the old /dev/datavg still exists on my root-partition. How do I get rid of the old files? There is no VG datavg anymore, but I want to have the name back. Can I 'rm -rf /dev/datavg' the files? Or should I do a vgextend? vgscan does not find the VG datavg anymore. Kai _______________________________________________ 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