Your mail doesn't show clearly, if vgremove was run prior to pvcreate. The directory in /dev/ still exists so run: rm -r /dev/volgrp2 and retry. Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:05:05AM -0600, Tom Georgoulias wrote: > I'm using lvm 1.0.3 that came with my Red Hat 7.3 system, with kernel > 2.4.18-24.7.x. When I try to create a volume group that has the same > name as one that existed in the past but was removed, I get an error > stating that the volume group already exists and to use a different > name. What can I do to fix this? > > I appreciate any tips. Most of the command outputs are below to help > illustrate what I'm seeing/doing. > > Tom > > [root@mom root]# vgcreate volgrp2 /dev/hdg > vgcreate -- volume group directory or file already exists > vgcreate -- please choose a different name > > [root@mom root]# vgremove volgrp2 > vgremove -- volume group "volgrp2" doesn't exist > > Before I tried recreating this group, I removed all of the LVs from it: > > [root@mom root]# df -hl > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda3 9.6G 1.3G 7.8G 15% / > /dev/hda1 144M 17M 120M 12% /boot > none 503M 0 503M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hda2 6.4G 33M 6.0G 1% /usr/local > /dev/hda6 1011M 273M 687M 29% /var > /dev/volgrp1/lvol1 36G 32G 1.9G 95% /volumes/v01 > /dev/volgrp1/lvol2 36G 29G 5.2G 85% /volumes/v02 > /dev/volgrp1/lvol3 36G 25G 9.4G 73% /volumes/v03 > /dev/volgrp2/lvol1 36G 31G 3.0G 92% /volumes/v10 > /dev/volgrp2/lvol2 36G 18G 16G 51% /volumes/v11 > /dev/volgrp2/lvol3 36G 915M 32G 3% /volumes/v12 > /dev/volgrp3/lvol1 36G 2.5G 31G 8% /volumes/v20 > /dev/volgrp3/lvol2 1.9G 208M 1.6G 12% /volumes/v21 > [root@mom /]# umount /volumes/v10 > [root@mom /]# umount /volumes/v11 > [root@mom /]# umount /volumes/v12 > [root@mom /]# lvremove /dev/volgrp2/lvol1 > lvremove -- do you really want to remove "/dev/volgrp2/lvol1"? [y/n]: y > lvremove -- doing automatic backup of volume group "volgrp2" > lvremove -- logical volume "/dev/volgrp2/lvol1" successfully removed > > [root@mom /]# lvremove /dev/volgrp2/lvol2 > lvremove -- do you really want to remove "/dev/volgrp2/lvol2"? [y/n]: y > lvremove -- doing automatic backup of volume group "volgrp2" > lvremove -- logical volume "/dev/volgrp2/lvol2" successfully removed > > [root@mom /]# lvremove /dev/volgrp2/lvol3 > lvremove -- do you really want to remove "/dev/volgrp2/lvol3"? [y/n]: y > lvremove -- doing automatic backup of volume group "volgrp2" > lvremove -- logical volume "/dev/volgrp2/lvol3" successfully removed > > The new disk was been initialized: > [root@mom root]# pvdisplay /dev/hdg > pvdisplay -- "/dev/hdg" is a new physical volume of 114.50 GB > > And volgrp2 isn't active: > [root@mom root]# vgdisplay > --- Volume group --- > VG Name volgrp1 > VG Access read/write > VG Status available/resizable > VG # 0 > MAX LV 256 > Cur LV 3 > Open LV 3 > MAX LV Size 255.99 GB > Max PV 256 > Cur PV 1 > Act PV 1 > VG Size 114.49 GB > PE Size 4 MB > Total PE 29310 > Alloc PE / Size 27786 / 108.54 GB > Free PE / Size 1524 / 5.95 GB > VG UUID 5sIM7c-KUYL-O1fc-wjdX-A8fj-v7RG-Fj4ssE > > --- Volume group --- > VG Name volgrp3 > VG Access read/write > VG Status available/resizable > VG # 2 > MAX LV 256 > Cur LV 3 > Open LV 3 > MAX LV Size 255.99 GB > Max PV 256 > Cur PV 1 > Act PV 1 > VG Size 114.49 GB > PE Size 4 MB > Total PE 29310 > Alloc PE / Size 18750 / 73.24 GB > Free PE / Size 10560 / 41.25 GB > VG UUID kIC7Td-UXGl-oJSx-AXRV-YzHE-DYFN-CBVCFb > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ *** 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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ 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/
