On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 12:57:21PM -0500, Steven Lembark wrote: > > > -- Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com> > > >> Is there a way that I can blow the whole thing away and start over? I > >> think I've screwed things up too badly to try to resurrect them. I'd > >> really like to blow it all away and start over and see if this stuff > >> happens again, but again I can't use the lv* tools to remove the > >> configurations because of the errors I mention in my initial post so I > >> need a manual way to blow away the entire LVM configuration and start > >> from scratch again. > > > > "pvcreate -ff" I think > > If you really want to wipe things clean: > > (1) vgexport /dev/vgname; # avoids collisions w/ stale config info. > (2) for disk in your disks here; do pvcreate -ff $disk; done; > > The export isn't strictly necessar: rm -rf and a vgscan should do the > same basic thing with a few nastygrams added in. Personally, I get > enough nastygrams to prefer avoiding a few more :-) I'm curious: which ones are thouse? > > > -- > Steven Lembark 2930 W. Palmer > Workhorse Computing Chicago, IL 60647 > +1 800 762 1582 > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
