I'm trying to recover my file system, and I was able to recreate the PV and run vgcfgrestore succesfully, but the LV status is 'NOT available'. Why would this be? blade01:root # lvs LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% home_lv big_cheese -wi--- 195.31G proj_lv big_cheese -wi--- 195.31G zap_lv big_cheese -wi--- 78.12G blade01:root # lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/big_cheese/proj_lv VG Name big_cheese LV UUID lIuJg1-ktEe-02A1-6VtC-uW5n-qIA4-wX4edP LV Write Access read/write LV Status NOT available LV Size 195.31 GB Current LE 50000 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/big_cheese/home_lv VG Name big_cheese LV UUID NJH2DO-wn2A-Xxs7-P3DV-skEf-v4ly-s1LVbw LV Write Access read/write LV Status NOT available LV Size 195.31 GB Current LE 50000 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/big_cheese/zap_lv VG Name big_cheese LV UUID wqAlDs-HwGs-vAY0-CL5n-G9zW-5i4x-ux8wXk LV Write Access read/write LV Status NOT available LV Size 78.12 GB Current LE 20000 Segments 2 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 regards, 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/