From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j5KDphu12126 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:51:43 -0400 Received: from hermesnew.ex.ac.uk (dot.ex.ac.uk [144.173.6.11]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5KDpaOt021155 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:51:36 -0400 Received: from volt.ex.ac.uk ([144.173.228.65] helo=volt) by hermesnew.ex.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.50/mail) id 1DkMgV-0002xO-3c for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:51:31 +0100 Received: from rowe by volt with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DkMeU-0004o0-Vd for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:49:26 +0100 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Is LVM safe? From: John Rowe In-Reply-To: <200506201517.01268.krienke@uni-koblenz.de> References: <1119268975.25392.34.camel@volt> <200506201517.01268.krienke@uni-koblenz.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:49:26 +0100 Message-Id: <1119275366.25392.48.camel@volt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: John Rowe Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: LVM general discussion and development Thanks for the reply but this doesn't answer my question: If I have a Physical Volume which is the only Physical Volume in a Volume Group, can I always recover the recover the Volume Group if I have absolutely nothing else just like I can with an ext3 partition? It seems to me that the only possible answers are "yes" or "no", with "yes, but it's difficult" somewhere in between! Thanks again. John