I have a file in the /etc/lvm/archive dir that seems to be the name of a vg. I see: Data { seqno = 1933 format = "lvm2" # informational status = ["RESIZEABLE", "READ", "WRITE"] extent_size = 8192 # 4 Megabytes max_lv = 0 max_pv = 0 metadata_copies = 0 physical_volumes { pv0 { device = "/dev/sdb1" # Hint only status = ["ALLOCATABLE"] flags = [] dev_size = 93755273216 # 43.6582 Terabytes pe_start = 2048 pe_count = 11444735 # 43.6582 Terabytes } } logical_volumes { Home { allocation_policy = "contiguous" segment_count = 1 segment1 { start_extent = 0 extent_count = 393216 # 1.5 Terabytes type = "striped" stripe_count = 1 # linear stripes = [ "pv0", 0 ] } } ---- It appears that the start of the physical vol is at 2048 but not sure what the units are -- Are those 2048 physical extents of size 8192 and is said to be equivalent to 4MB? So the 8192 is a number of 512 byte sectors (even though they underlying disk is 4K with 512e)? At the start of the physical volume at 2048 should I see the logical volume 'Home' as it starts at extent '0'? So shouldn't I see the start of the Home partition 8MB in from the front? Or is there something else before physical volumns? Does first logical volume start at pe_start? I.e. I'm assuming I have something wrong, because I'm not seeing anything looking like the beginning of a file system at that location... Thanks.... _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/