On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Lou Arnold wrote: > I am confused as to where LVM data is stored. Restoring a disk image > doesn't seem to restore the original LVM set-up. A backup of LVM metadata is stored in /etc/lvm (or where configured). Metadata is also stored on PVs. Your second drive was probably a second VG (your details are rather vague), hence there was no PV to override the lvm backup. > Even during the kernel start-up, I saw notices of VolGroup00 problems - > something about reverting to "version 5", although the notices went by too > fast to record. I should just have seen the original configuration. I'm > stumped. There was a version conflict between the /etc/lvm backup and the PV version of VolGroup00, and it reverted to the PV version. -- Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com> Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial. _______________________________________________ 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/