Hi All, I've been reading the arquives and didn't find an answer to my problem and I was wondering how data recovery could be done... because I have a server that crashed quite badly. It did not have lvm backups from /etc/lvm/archive/ and I wanted to recover the LVM. I only have two partitions, sda1 and sda2. sda1 is the /boot. sda2 is LVM, with swap and / (the machine runs fedora core 4)with root inside the LVM... now I know that's a bad ideia. The problem is that I don't have any backups of any LVM information and all I know is the size of the partitions inside LVM... Adding 2031608k swap on /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2031608k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 32963596 24207464 8756132 74% / /dev/sda1 101086 56597 39270 60% /boot /dev/shm 1037328 0 1037328 0% /dev/shm can I conceivably recover the data ? how ? regards, miguel dias