Make the 2 PVs reappear (did you remove them from the system or did you write over by accident ?). Then 'vgchange -ay'. Heinz On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 10:41:08AM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > Running Debian Etch. > > debian:/# pvdisplay > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name unknown device > VG Name testvg > PV Size 9.31 GB / not usable 0 > Allocatable yes (but full) > PE Size (KByte) 4096 > Total PE 2384 > Free PE 0 > Allocated PE 2384 > PV UUID Pvmwcl-Z9Zg-rVJv-Q5Si-pP0g-2s7u-hveDWS > > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name unknown device > VG Name testvg > PV Size 9.31 GB / not usable 0 > Allocatable yes (but full) > PE Size (KByte) 4096 > Total PE 2384 > Free PE 0 > Allocated PE 2384 > PV UUID vmmYU5-2KEi-jjTn-baQl-Ckj2-wqmK-7TGn4P > > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/hde3 > VG Name testvg > PV Size 9.31 GB / not usable 0 > Allocatable yes > PE Size (KByte) 4096 > Total PE 2384 > Free PE 902 > Allocated PE 1482 > PV UUID w3tmk3-Zkbj-MRkJ-OrIQ-ku3b-Hw1i-FRlwcg > > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/hde4 > VG Name testvg > PV Size 9.32 GB / not usable 0 > Allocatable yes > PE Size (KByte) 4096 > Total PE 2386 > Free PE 2386 > Allocated PE 0 > PV UUID f5fdpL-quXK-m6Bf-1s7w-LHk5-Y3fK-1kcUSy > > > I would like to activate the 'testvg', how would I do that? > > tia > _______________________________________________ > 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/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 Storage Development 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@RedHat.com PHONE +49 171 7803392 FAX +49 2626 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ 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/