Hi Radu, Thanks for your response. > Now the only question that's left to be answered is why the heck a > windows xp guest (yes, my guest machines are windows xp too) would crash > (or not even boot) when there is some particular data left in the > *unallocated* filesystem blocks. But since I have a "certain" opinion > about microsoft and their products, I just think that life is too short > to bother yourself with this kind of crap. That is indeed a good question and the reason why I initially didn't pursue this track. I wouldn't be surprised if this would indeed be a "feature" of Windows XP/Microsoft. Another question would be why a) Windows XP would hang itself up beyond repair after having run for half a year just fine as well as leaving it's disc space in a unusable state. After all making image backups of Windows machines and restoring them to known states is a well tried method. > I hope this helps you debug the issue you had. It would also be > interesting if you could try to zero the *original* LVM volume (the one > that didn't work) and then restore the image once again and see if it > works. It would prove (or disprove) my theory :) I'll do just that in the next few days and will report back. best regards, Jan _______________________________________________ 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/
