The gods of Linux must be watching over me . I shall never blaspheme against Linux again! I had removed the new drive from the VG, then restored the VG (vgrestore) to an archived version created before I had added the drive to the PV. I then added the drive back to the VG (vgextend), extended the LV partition to the max (lvextend), then resized the LV (resize2fs). Oh, before I could do the resize, I had to run e2fsck, which praise the gods, ran successfully. As did the resize. I re-ran e2fsck (with -f) and ir ran 100% successful and clean. And then the piece de resistance - I mounted the LV and everything was as I orginally wanted. The old data was still there and valid, and the new size of the LV was the original + the new disk!!!!! I don't know what I did to make this work. I all seems magical to me now. As with Stuart's below: Disclaimer, I am (in no way, shape or form) an LV expert. Thanks all. ken PS: "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial. This is from Mozart's unfinished Requiem. If you watch the movie Amadeus, it is at the end right before he dies. I don't know Latin very well, but I think it has something to do with the burning flames of h*ll :-). <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Stuart D. Gathman <<a href="mailto:stuart@bmsi.com">stuart@bmsi.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Ken Bass wrote: </div>Look at your metadata backups, and see if you can find the version with the larger LV. Look at the timestamp on the revert to get a clue on how it got reverted. First, I would make a copy of what you got (it will fit on a cheap external USB disk) before making any more mods. Then restore the metadata to the extended LV before retrying e2fsck. Disclaimer, I am not an LVM expert. -- Stuart D. Gathman <<a href="mailto:stuart@bmsi.com">stuart@bmsi.com</a>> Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial. _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-lvm@redhat.com">linux-lvm@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm</a> read the LVM HOW-TO at <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/" target="_blank">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/</a> </blockquote></div>