I am trying to create volume group and physical volume. when i do vgscan helena:/etc # vgscan vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) vgscan -- found inactive volume group "helena_vg" vgscan -- ERROR "lv_read_all_lv(): number of LV" can't get data of volume group) vgscan -- ERROR "lv_read_all_lv(): number of LV" creating "/etc/lvmtab" and "/e" the conf file for helena_vg is not to be found. how can i completely remove it. helena:/etc # vgremove helena_vg vgremove -- volume group "helena_vg" doesn't exist then i want to remove this PV /dev/hda3 pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hda3" is associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) narsimha _______________________________________________ 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/