<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:06 AM, Bryan Whitehead <<a href="mailto:driver@megahappy.net">driver@megahappy.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im"> </div>The lv is available right? It would be great to see the output from lvdisplay and vgdisplay. -Bryan <div><div></div><div class="h5"> </div></div></blockquote><div> ___________________________________ [root@Elmer ken]# lvdisplay /dev/VolGroupX/LogVolX --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroupX/LogVolX VG Name VolGroupW LV UUID eBQgqM-RHra-ruaK-CcEt-stnX-U9yR-Uz4UH5 LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 0 LV Size 442.80 GB Current LE 113358 Segments 5 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:11 [root@Elmer ken]# vgdisplay VolGroupX --- Volume group --- VG Name VolGroupX System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 5 Metadata Sequence No 28 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 1 Open LV 0 Max PV 0 Cur PV 5 Act PV 5 VG Size 442.80 GB PE Size 4.00 MB Total PE 113358 Alloc PE / Size 113358 / 442.80 GB Free PE / Size 0 / 0 VG UUID 2CXUUY-j6nu-07qP-kKd1-ZkBJ-hNwf-iunkwK ___________________________________ </div> </div>I would think I should be able to find a backup superblock among the remaining drives. I tried running mke2fs -n to get a list of possible superblocks, but when I ran e2fsck with those values, I got the ioctl error, and then the no superblock found message. Is there any way to scan each of the individual drives for data, outside of LVM? Just another desparate thought. thx again. ken