Hi everyone, Judging by the archives, a few others have seen this issue, but I'm getting errors when I try to pvmove off a PV to remove it from my VG: root@turalyon:~# pvmove -v /dev/hda2 Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices Finding volume group "vg0" Archiving volume group "vg0" metadata (seqno 16). Creating logical volume pvmove0 Moving 33769 extents of logical volume vg0/home Found volume group "vg0" Creating vg0-home Loading vg0-home table Resuming vg0-home (253:0) Updating volume group metadata Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg0" (seqno 17). Found volume group "vg0" Found volume group "vg0" Suspending vg0-home (253:0) Found volume group "vg0" Creating vg0-pvmove0 Loading vg0-pvmove0 table device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument ABORTING: Temporary mirror activation failed. Run pvmove --abort. Found volume group "vg0" Loading vg0-pvmove0 table device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument Loading vg0-home table device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument root@turalyon:~# I noticed one post that indicated pvmove requires snapshot support, which I don't normally use. Before running this pvmove, I modprobed all of the dm-* modules just to make sure. The box in question is running Ubuntu Edgy Eft on i386. I've been able to recover just fine from this by rebooting, running pvmove --abort, and then rebooting again. Obviously this prevents me from removing the volume though. Thanks in advance for any help! -- Ross Vandegrift ross@kallisti.us "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell." --St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37 _______________________________________________ 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/