debian:~# pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hda4 VG Name VolGroup00 PV Size 7.47 GB / not usable 0 Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 32768 Total PE 239 Free PE 1 Allocated PE 238 PV UUID u4DT9h-8FZB-wCAP-aQHf-I3zB-6e0j-0G2Ybu debian:~# vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2 debian:~# lvscan inactive '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00' [6.94 GB] inherit inactive '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01' [512.00 MB] inherit debian:~# pvscan PV /dev/hda4 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [7.47 GB / 32.00 MB free] Total: 1 [7.47 GB] / in use: 1 [7.47 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] debian:~#