i had created a volume group and physical volume some time back. I want to delete it and recreate it. the conf file is also not there. when I do a pvscan, i get pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hda3" is associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) and when i do a vgscan, i get vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) vgscan -- found active volume group "helena_vg" vgscan -- ERROR "lv_read_all_lv(): number of LV" can't get data of volume group) vgscan -- found active volume group "volg" vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume groups i want to delete the vg helena_vg and /dev/hda3 (pv). can anyone help me please thanks in advance narsimha _______________________________________________ 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/