Hello all, I'm in desperate need of some assistance. I used to have 2 volume groups, big_cheese and lil_cheesy1. blade01:phung # vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "lil_cheesy1" using metadata type lvm2 Found volume group "big_cheese" using metadata type lvm2 but I've been messing with my GFS configuration and rebooting "spontaneously" (to test the locking setup I have), and now I'm missing one of my beloved volume groups! blade01:phung # vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "lil_cheesy1" using metadata type lvm2 This is an IBM fastT500/EXP500 SAN, so I can login using their SMclient facility and I see that the array is still correctly configured, and I do see the /dev/sda where the data lives, and I can fdisk that device to see my array, but the physical volume also seems to be missing! blade01:phung # pvs PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/sdb lil_cheesy1 lvm2 a- 68.32G 68.32G any help would be much appreciated. - dan _______________________________________________ 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/