I am confident someone else will read and reply someday so I'll keep posting :) I believe the source of my problem is that I reduced the size of my LV by 10G to make room for the PV I moved. However, I did not reduce the filesystem by 10G so fsck is seeing the filesystem is too big for the LV. If I run 'e2fsadm -L-10G /dev/pv00/lv00' then maybe everything will work once again? This util wasn't available on my fedora 4 rescue CD but maybe I can find it on knoppix or another rescue disk. My file system is ext3. Is this any problem with versions of e2fsadm I am likely to find on popular live or recovery CDs? 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/