<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.0.9"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 12:34, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> You need to select the last valid metadata backup of vg2 from /etc/lvmconf (check it with vgcfgrestore -ll -f /etc/lvmconf/vg2.conf[.#.old]; see 'man vgcfgrestore for metadata archive file names) and restore it. Say vg.conf.1.old is the valid one: for dev in AllPVsOfVG2 # list all PVs reported by vgcfgrestore -ll above do pvcreate -ff $dev vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvmconf/vg.conf.1.old $dev done vgscan vgchange -ay vg2 </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> That did the trick thanks. :-) Of course in a moment of not concentrating I messed things up again. I still had pvremove on the disk from when I previously installed the lvm2 tools, and although I wanted to do a vgreduce I did a pvremove. Even when it kicked up an error I just followed what it said and typed pvremove -ff. oops :-/ Now I get a a similar error as before with vgscan, and other tools give a 'VGDA in kernel and lvmtab are NTO consistent: please run vgscan' error. I tried re-running what you suggested above but vgcfgrestore gives a 'can't restore part of active volume group "vg2"' error. Is there anyway to recover from my stupidity (other than a lobotomy!)? </BODY> </HTML>