Quoting David Minor <sus4@sbcglobal.net>: <SNIP> > We had a problem with the > root partition on the first drive, so we decided to > restore from the mirror using dd. After doing this, > the VGs are not in existence anymore. running > 'vgscan' shows it creates /etc/lvmtab and > /etc/lvmtab.d correctly, but they are empty. How were the drives mirrored? Did you use some sort of raid or was it all done by using dd to copy the whole drive? What does pvscan show? Rupert _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/