I ran "pvmove -v /dev/hdc2" to move the data off the drive but it stopped before any real drive activity happened. The system was stuck for about 30 minutes not doing anything so I powered off/on. Now it boots into a bash prompt but suggests I run fsck manually. I noticed that lvm only reported that 2 of the 3 physical volumes were found. I can't run any lvm commands from here as I get a 'Locking type 1 initialization failed'. What steps do I take to get the system to boot again? The root dir is part of the lvm volume. The /boot is separate from the lvm volume but maybe this is required anyway for lvm to work. Thanks, Chad _______________________________________________ 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/