<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">My plan was to use DD to strip off the head and tail of the volume,<br>onto a new 400GB we bought, and then do some juggling to clean up the
<br>PV collection using pvmove -- pvmove was the application that initially<br>demonstrated the locking up, when it hit the bad spot.<br><br>But, I can't figure out how to get around the computer getting confused<br>because I will have two PVs with the same UUID. Or because a desired
<br>UUID PV is missing.</blockquote><div><br>I would copy the entire 200GB drive to the 400GB drive using dd then RMA the 200GB drive because it is bad. Something like the following is what I suggest:<br><br>dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=8M conv=noerror
<br><br>Then you can use fdisk to get rest of the 400GB drive space. Then remove the 200GB drive and boot.<br></div></div><br>John<br>