Thomas Krichel writes > It is strange that the scan does not find the /dev/hdd volume, > but the display manually finds the same data. If anyone wants > to have a look I would be happy to have them access the machine. Actually, I found that using lvm.conf, I can tell it to scan for the disk, and then the disk is found, and the vg1 is created. This closes my problem. But it is still bad that pvscan can't find the disk after other disks have been exchanged. Maybe this is a bios problem. Cheers, Thomas Krichel mailto:krichel@openlib.org http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel _______________________________________________ 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/