On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:53:24PM +0200, Kai Weber wrote: > Hi, > > I have lost a hard disk (died). I had a volume group on this disk. Now I > have replaced the disk with a new one and wanted to create the old scheme > on this disk: > > $ vgcreate datavg /dev/hdb1 > vgcreate -- directory /dev/datavg already exists > > As you can see the old /dev/datavg still exists on my root-partition. How > do I get rid of the old files? There is no VG datavg anymore, but I want to > have the name back. > > Can I 'rm -rf /dev/datavg' the files? Or should I do a vgextend? You can safely delete the directory. When you re-created the VG and LVs then nodes will be re-created. > vgscan does not find the VG datavg anymore. Well...er... if it's a totally new disk it won't. :) patrick _______________________________________________ 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
