On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 03:41:20PM -0600, Steven Mosimann wrote: > (1) Replaced the failed disk with one of the same size > (2) Used pvcreate to make the same physical volumes on the new disk > that were present on the failed disk. Example of the actual command I > used was: > pvcreate --uuid xxxxx /dev/sdb1 > where xxxxx was the pv uuid from pvdisplay Missing the --restorefile arg there (for safety - if it was originally created by lvm2 with default options it'll make no difference). Missing a 'vgcfgrestore' step. > (3) Used vgchange -a y -P to activate the volume group No need for -P here. That's what you use if you *don't* do steps 1 and 2 etc. Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com _______________________________________________ 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/