Thanks for the reply but this doesn't answer my question: If I have a Physical Volume which is the only Physical Volume in a Volume Group, can I always recover the recover the Volume Group if I have absolutely nothing else just like I can with an ext3 partition? It seems to me that the only possible answers are "yes" or "no", with "yes, but it's difficult" somewhere in between! Thanks again. John _______________________________________________ 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/