Hello I have built a VG from a couple of disks and have now discovered that one disk is not working right. Im getting a lot of theese kinds of errors: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hdd), sector 2321462 hdd: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hdd: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=12571028, sector=2321558 So I would like to move the data that still can be accessed from the bad disk and remove the disk from the VG. When I run pvmove /dev/hdd1 I get theese errors: pvmove -- ERROR "Input/output error" reading sector 130688 from "/dev/hdd1" pvmove -- ERROR "Input/output error" reading sector 130689 from "/dev/hdd1" pvmove -- ERROR "Input/output error" reading sector 130690 from "/dev/hdd1" pvmove -- ERROR "Input/output error" reading sector 130691 from "/dev/hdd1" pvmove -- ERROR "Input/output error" reading sector 130692 from "/dev/hdd1" pvmove -- ERROR "Input/output error" reading sector 130693 from "/dev/hdd1" pvmove -- ERROR "Input/output error" reading sector 130694 from "/dev/hdd1" pvmove -- ERROR "Input/output error" reading sector 130695 from "/dev/hdd1" pvmove -- ERROR reading input physical volume "/dev/hdd1" (still 393216 bytes to read) pvmove -- ERROR "pv_move_pe(): read input PV" moving physical extents I have tried to upgrade to the 1.0.3 tools and doing "pvmove -i /dev/hdd1" but I still get the same errors. Im using lvm-mod version 1.0.1-rc4 with kernel 2.4.17. Im willing to accept data loss, so is it possible to force the removal of the PV, even if its not empty? Can I somehow display the files that occupies a PV? so that I know which files will be lost. What if I just remove the /dev/hdd1 partition with fdisk? will that mess up the whole VG? any help appreciateed! /Regards kalle... _______________________________________________ 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