On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:55:17PM -0800, Kenny Gorman wrote: > I would just like to remove the entire volume and group and start over You'll need to wipe the LVM label at the start of each PV. LVM2 has a tool which will do this for you called pvremove: e.g. if the PV to wipe is /dev/sdb4: pvremove -ff /dev/sdb4 (works for both old and new metadata formats) Or you can just use "dd" - example for the old (LVM1) metadata format: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb4 count=1 Alasdair -- agk@uk.sistina.com _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/