Listing 7. Activating the Recovered LVM2 Volume [root@recoverybox ~]# vgcfgrestore -f VolGroup01 VolGroup01 [root@recoverybox ~]# vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "VolGroup01" using metadata type lvm2 Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2 [root@recoverybox ~]# pvscan PV /dev/md2 VG VolGroup01 lvm2 [73.91 GB / 32.00 MB free] PV /dev/hda2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [18.91 GB / 32.00 MB free] Total: 2 [92.81 GB] / in use: 2 [92.81 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] [root@recoverybox ~]# vgchange VolGroup01 -a y 1 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup01" now active [root@recoverybox ~]# lvscan ACTIVE '/dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00' [73.88 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00' [18.38 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01' [512.00 MB] inherit