On 2/27/2015 4:52 PM, Khemara Lyn wrote: > I understand; I tried it in the hope that, I could activate the LV again > with a new PV replacing the damaged one. But still I could not activate > it. > > What is the right way to recover the remaining PVs left? take a filing cabinet packed full of 10s of 1000s of files of 100s of pages each, with the index cards interleaved in the files, and remove 1/4th of the pages in the folders, including some of the indexes... and toss everything else on the floor... this is what you have. 3 out of 4 pages, semi-randomly with no idea whats what. a LV built from PV's that are just simple drives is something like RAID0, which isn't RAID at all, as there's no redundancy, its AID-0. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast