Upon some sleep, I&#39;m guessing the issue is that the instructions I followed either assume you aren&#39;t removing the primary PV or don&#39;t care.<div><br></div><div>I guess the lvm metadata is stored on there, which contains VG and LV information, and upon doing &#39;vgextend system /dev/newpv&#39; it doesn&#39;t mirror that information to the new pv.</div>
<div><br>So by removing the old pv, I&#39;ve shot myself in the foot.<br><br></div><div>I guess I should have used vgcfgbackup/vgcfgrestore (which I&#39;ve now discovered).</div><div><br></div><div>Any other light to be shone on this situation?</div>
<div><br></div><div>The good news is that this is just my os/home drives, and I have a semi-recent backup of the /home part, so I&#39;m not that worried about reinstall and restore.  Clearly I&#39;d prefer not to, but it wouldn&#39;t be the end of the world.</div>
<div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>      / Brett</div>