I now booted from a recent sysresccd ... and it didn't assemble/detect the LVM-PV ... *sigh*
So I couldn't even mount the LV to chroot in there. The mdadm-RAID-devices were there and active. I didn't want to screw around with the LVM too much as there is data on there (yes, there are backups, but ...). pvscan always told me something like: No device found for PV hMMm0m-w4Ds-SU77-ATjF-iF1A-0qfq-V2IcXb .... When I boot into Suse again, it shows up fine: # pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/md3 VG Name VG01 PV Size 4,09 TB / not usable 4,00 TB Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 1072103 Free PE 242919 Allocated PE 829184 PV UUID hMMm0m-w4Ds-SU77-ATjF-iF1A-0qfq-V2IcXb Do I hit some compatibility-issue? Stefan