Folks, I have a drive with two "Linux raid autodetect" partitions, which, as far as I know, have LVM VGs on them. However, even though mdadm happily starts both RAID devices ( each half of a RAID-1 device ), vgscan and pvscan don't give me answers that I really understand. First pvscan -vvv ( edited output ): Processing: pvscan -vvv O_DIRECT will be used Setting global/locking_type to 1 Setting global/locking_dir to /var/lock/lvm File-based locking enabled. Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices /dev/acpi: Not a block device /dev/adsp: Not a block device . . . /dev/hda5: No label detected Closed /dev/hda5 Opened /dev/md5 RO /dev/md5: size is 78139904 sectors Closed /dev/md5 /dev/md5: size is 78139904 sectors Opened /dev/md5 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md5: block size is 4096 bytes Closed /dev/md5 Using /dev/md5 Opened /dev/md5 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md5: block size is 4096 bytes /dev/md5: lvm2 label detected Closed /dev/md5 lvmcache: /dev/md5 now orphaned Opened /dev/md5 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md5: block size is 4096 bytes Closed /dev/md5 Opened /dev/Ubuntu/lv_usrsrc RO . . . Closed /dev/hda6 lvmcache: /dev/hda6 now in VG Ubuntu Opened /dev/md6 RO /dev/md6: size is 312576512 sectors Closed /dev/md6 /dev/md6: size is 312576512 sectors Opened /dev/md6 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md6: block size is 4096 bytes Closed /dev/md6 Using /dev/md6 Opened /dev/md6 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md6: block size is 4096 bytes /dev/md6: lvm2 label detected Closed /dev/md6 lvmcache: /dev/md6 now orphaned Opened /dev/md6 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md6: block size is 4096 bytes Closed /dev/md6 Opened /dev/Ubuntu/lv_home RO /dev/Ubuntu/lv_home: size is 4710400 sectors . . . /dev/hda6 9: 3516 62: NULL(0:0) Opened /dev/md5 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md5: block size is 4096 bytes /dev/md5: lvm2 label detected Closed /dev/md5 Opened /dev/md5 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md5: block size is 4096 bytes Closed /dev/md5 Opened /dev/md5 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md5: block size is 4096 bytes /dev/md5: lvm2 label detected Closed /dev/md5 Opened /dev/md5 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md5: block size is 4096 bytes Closed /dev/md5 Opened /dev/md6 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md6: block size is 4096 bytes /dev/md6: lvm2 label detected Closed /dev/md6 Opened /dev/md6 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md6: block size is 4096 bytes Closed /dev/md6 . . . PV /dev/hda6 VG Ubuntu lvm2 [13.98 GB / 2.58 GB free] PV /dev/md5 lvm2 [37.26 GB] PV /dev/md6 lvm2 [149.05 GB] Total: 7 [372.62 GB] / in use: 5 [186.31 GB] / in no VG: 2 [186.31 GB] And then, vgscan -vvv said ( also edited ): Processing: vgscan -vvv O_DIRECT will be used Setting global/locking_type to 1 Setting global/locking_dir to /var/lock/lvm File-based locking enabled. Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices /dev/acpi: Not a block device . . . /dev/hda5: No label detected Closed /dev/hda5 Opened /dev/md5 RO /dev/md5: size is 78139904 sectors Closed /dev/md5 /dev/md5: size is 78139904 sectors Opened /dev/md5 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md5: block size is 4096 bytes Closed /dev/md5 Using /dev/md5 Opened /dev/md5 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md5: block size is 4096 bytes /dev/md5: lvm2 label detected Closed /dev/md5 lvmcache: /dev/md5 now orphaned Opened /dev/md5 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md5: block size is 4096 bytes Closed /dev/md5 Opened /dev/Ubuntu/lv_usrsrc RO . . . Closed /dev/hda6 lvmcache: /dev/hda6 now in VG Ubuntu Opened /dev/md6 RO /dev/md6: size is 312576512 sectors Closed /dev/md6 /dev/md6: size is 312576512 sectors Opened /dev/md6 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md6: block size is 4096 bytes Closed /dev/md6 Using /dev/md6 Opened /dev/md6 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md6: block size is 4096 bytes /dev/md6: lvm2 label detected Closed /dev/md6 lvmcache: /dev/md6 now orphaned Opened /dev/md6 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md6: block size is 4096 bytes Closed /dev/md6 Opened /dev/Ubuntu/lv_home RO . . . And nothing more about the supposed VGs on those partitions. What should I try next? Thanks, Brian _______________________________________________ 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/