The system has no idea what happened to the PV while it was missing, so it requires you to take this action to confirm that you've checked what happened and decided it is OK to continue to use the volume after it reappears. 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/