Please disregard my previous inquiry about pvcreate on loop. I got it to work by doing 'losetup /dev/loop0 disk-image'. That was off-topic anyway. To state what information I'm looking for in a more concise form: How to go about restoring a VG without having to physically replace a failed PV? Is it possible to create a "fake" PV, restore LVM metadata, fsck the filesystem and finally remove the PV? -- TW _______________________________________________ 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/