I had 3 identical maxtor 30GB's with the 2nd & 3rd *striped* into VolGroup01. The 3rd drive died and my inadequate rescue attempts resulted in my recreating VolGroup01/LogVol00 containing only my 2nd disk. A 'df' shows: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 27932828 2396176 24094860 10% / /dev/hde1 101086 13858 82009 15% /boot tmpfs 257916 0 257916 0% /dev/shm /dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol00 3963 1059 2700 29% /Data Leading me to hope upon hope that 29% used means some of my data lives on. That LV (/Data above) only contains a 'lost+found' folder, which is empty. I have a vmware disk image on that drive that I would dearly love to get back. It's beerworthy even. Is there any hope for this lamer, or am I well and truly stuffed? _______________________________________________ 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/