A couple of months ago I setup an LVM2 device conisting of a 400Gb SATA and a 80Gb PATA... After a a couple of weeks, the SATA disk crashed (badly). I managed to get it removed from the LVM2 setup, but now I got the (warranty) replacement... I've been trying to get the data on the PATA disk so that I can recreate the whole thing, but I'm not shure how to do that (I don't have much experience with LVM... Now do I recreate the whole device with the two new 400Gb SATA disks and move the data I already have on the PATA disk to this new LVM2 disk/device? I'm running PPC Ubuntu dapper, and this is (if it matters/helps) what /etc/lvm/archive/* say: ----- s n i p ----- root@pegasos:/etc/lvm# grep ^description archive/* archive/MovieShare_00000.vg:description = "Created *before* executing 'vgcreate MovieShare /dev/sda'" archive/MovieShare_00001.vg:description = "Created *before* executing 'lvcreate -L300G -nMovieShare MovieShare'" archive/MovieShare_00002.vg:description = "Created *before* executing 'lvremove /dev/MovieShare/MovieShare'" archive/MovieShare_00003.vg:description = "Created *before* executing 'vgremove MovieShare'" archive/MovieShare_00004.vg:description = "Created *before* executing 'vgcreate MovieShare /dev/sda'" archive/MovieShare_00005.vg:description = "Created *before* executing 'lvcreate -l 95388 -ndisk MovieShare'" archive/MovieShare_00006.vg:description = "Created *before* executing 'vgextend MovieShare /dev/hdb'" archive/MovieShare_00007.vg:description = "Created *before* executing 'lvextend -l +19079 /dev/MovieShare/disk /dev/hdb'" archive/MovieShare_00008.vg:description = "Created *before* executing 'vgreduce --removemissing MovieShare'" ----- s n i p ----- I guess it's >= 4 that matters (seems like I didn't create it correctly the 'first time' :). This is what 'backup/MovieShare' contains (empty lines trimmed): ----- s n i p ----- # Generated by LVM2: Sun Dec 17 14:26:19 2006 contents = "Text Format Volume Group" version = 1 description = "Created *after* executing 'vgreduce --removemissing MovieShare'" creation_host = "pegasos" # Linux pegasos 2.6.15-27-powerpc #1 Sat Sep 16 01:55:03 UTC 2006 ppc creation_time = 1166361979 # Sun Dec 17 14:26:19 2006 MovieShare { id = "a6WfmR-Iuyt-jI1n-ii4E-CoUf-iLQ6-1RHFGC" seqno = 5 status = ["RESIZEABLE", "READ", "WRITE"] extent_size = 8192 # 4 Megabytes max_lv = 0 max_pv = 0 physical_volumes { pv0 { id = "WA7SHt-AI3U-voLG-6IwU-z8qE-FFrE-fWMIbn" device = "/dev/hdb" # Hint only status = ["ALLOCATABLE"] pe_start = 384 pe_count = 19079 # 74.5273 Gigabytes } } } ----- s n i p ----- _______________________________________________ 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/