Thank you for the thoughts. I will investigate and see if I can "mount" the missing disk after all. I created a new VM to work with, and copied the qcow files from the original VM to try and not damage anything fatally. Onward with Option 1. I will let you know how it goes. Thanks, Brian _______________________________________________ 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/