I have a similar problem like Bryan Ragon some days ago: after a reboot the LVM partition is not mounted. My idea is that this was my procedure: Under a running udev I installed the logical volume lvol0 in a volume group vg0. So there is an entry of the device in/dev/mapper/vg0-lvol0. But this entry isn't made in "static" directory (what udev saves under /.dev). Is it right, that lvm made an (inode?) entry in the partition for the device? After an update && upgrade of the Debian/GNU sarge system, the behavior of udev seems to change and the device /dev/mapper/vg0-lvol0 isn't there (anymore). So my questions are: 1. Is (always) it useful/recommended, to make entries (by pvcreate etc.) without a running udev or should it be the same? 2. Will get back my lvm-partition by vgcfgrestore or have I to do the toolchain which Bryan did? 3. Or is it all wrong what I think?-) _______________________________________________ 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/