I have managed to restore the volume group, but I can't mount it as a filesystem, I can't format the logical volume, I can't do anything with lvextend, etc. Here's a basic operation that fails: [root@fileserver mapper]# lvextend -L+5G /dev/vg0/lv0 Extending logical volume lv0 to 525.70 GB device-mapper ioctl cmd 9 failed: Invalid argument Couldn't load device 'vg0-lv0'. Problem reactivating lv0 After doing that, lvdisplay says the logical volume is suspended. What's wrong? /dev/vg0/lv0 is a symlink to /dev/mapper/vg0-lv0 _______________________________________________ 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/