On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 09:53 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > after crash and partial recovery: > / > Logical Volume > Physical Volume > RAID1 array - showing inactive, running on spare drive alone Is the root volume group now active and using one member of the array as a PV, or is it still using the MD device? If LVM has grabbed one of the members and is using that as its PV this may prevent the rebuild from taking place. Regards, Bryn. _______________________________________________ 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/