Thanks, this is more or less what I've been trying: #vgscan --mknodes -vv Setting global/locking_type to 1 Setting global/locking_dir to /var/lock/lvm File-based locking enabled. Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices Wiping internal cache Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Finding all volume groups /dev/md0: size is 0 sectors /dev/hda1: size is 417627 sectors /dev/hda1: No label detected /dev/hda2: size is 40965750 sectors /dev/hda2: No label detected /dev/hda3: size is 6136830 sectors /dev/hda3: No label detected /dev/hda4: size is 265056435 sectors /dev/hda4: lvm2 label detected /dev/cdrom: open failed: No medium found Finding all logical volumes # vgchange -ay -vv Setting global/locking_type to 1 Setting global/locking_dir to /var/lock/lvm File-based locking enabled. Finding all volume groups /dev/hda1: No label detected /dev/hda2: No label detected /dev/hda3: No label detected /dev/hda4: lvm2 label detected But it doesn't seem to find anything! 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/