Hi Alan, hi Nicolas first of all thanks for your time & effort. I finally 'solved' the problem by upgrading to LVM2, which I did not dare before since I could not oversee possible consequences for my filesystem. The upgrade went flawlessly, all PVs/VGs/LVs returned without any further action on my side. And sorry to all of you for the disconcertment I caused the last two days. But I still feel that lots of valuable knowledge concerning LVM is pretty much distributed over the net. I think I'll set up something like an LVM Wiki shortly. Anyway, thanks again! Regards, Constantin _______________________________________________ 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/