The concept of 'active' (or 'available') and 'inactive' in respect of Volume Groups has been removed. Under the LVM1 architecture it made sense - VG metadata was cached in-kernel - but with device-mapper it doesn't - the kernel doesn't know anything about VGs, only LVs. Do your detection at the LV level instead. Alasdair _______________________________________________ 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/