Listing 1. Typical LVM Disk Configuration [root@recoverybox ~]# /sbin/sfdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 39560 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track Warning: The partition table looks like it was made for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 39560/16/63). For this listing I'll assume that geometry. Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 0+ 12 13- 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda2 13 2481 2469 19832242+ 8e Linux LVM /dev/hda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty [root@recoverybox ~]# /sbin/pvscan PV /dev/hda2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [18.91 GB / 32.00 MB free] Total: 1 [18.91 GB] / in use: 1 [18.91 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] [root@recoverybox ~]# /usr/sbin/lvscan ACTIVE '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00' [18.38 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01' [512.00 MB] inherit