On Sun, 04.05.03, Toad <toad@amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > Is there any way for me to recover (some of?) my data from LVM, given > that LVM does not recognize my volume group, I have lost my /etc/lvm*, > but I have the original physical volumes intact? Are there any tools I > could use to do this? The LVM will be moderately fragmented... Isn't vgscan supposed to do this? It creates /etc/lvmtab and /etc/lvmtab.d/* according to its manpage. After that call vgchange -ay and you should be up and going - if not, post the full error message :) hope that helps, Nils -- > Nils Juergens | nils@muon.de | icq 7090774 < > If we all work hard, we can turn this company < > around 360 degrees -- gruntbert(LOTD) < _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/