On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 01:10:20PM +0530, Sharad Tiwari wrote: > If I have created a volume group(say 'testvg') containg two physical > volumes say /dev/sda5 and /dev/sda6, and then remove one of the > physical volume say /dev/sda6 and then do a pvdisplay it shows > /dev/sda6 as an unknown device ... > Now doing a vgreduce gives the proper result. So I did not understand > why we are prividing this feature (using pvremove) of removing a > physical volume from an existing VG. pvremove is the opposite of pvcreate - it removes the LVM label from the device that you want to remove from the LVM system and use for something else. It is *not* a replacement for vgreduce. Obviously the warning needs to be made clearer - you need to think carefully about what you're doing before using -ff. > Really WIPE LABELS from physical volume "/dev/sda7" of volume group "testvg" [y/n]? y > WARNING: Wiping physical volume label from /dev/sda7 of volume group "testvg" > Labels on physical volume "/dev/sda7" successfully wiped 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/
