On Sat, 4 Sep 2010, For Miscelenious wrote: > Checked -alm directories were in place. Proceeded with creation a few large > files * also worked fine. Switched the machiine off and went to bed. > Next day booted to discover that few , but the most important, dies are > missing. The sfdisk output looks ok. Now don't be offended, just ruling out obvious things that could have gone wrong. You did shutdown before switching off the machine, right? > e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/VG_Storage-LV_00 By any chance, did fsck fix stuff? Have you looked in lost+found? -- 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/