burlen wrote: > How can I recover this drive? Really all I need to do is mount it and > recover some data then we can repartion/ format it as well. It should be a simple matter of using "vgscan" to activate the volume groups. Of course this will only work if the volume groups do not contain any physical volumes that were on the failed drives. If the vgs do come up, use "lvdisplay" or "lvs" to display the logical volumes that you can mount. Sincerely, Richard van den Berg _______________________________________________ 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/