Kjetil, the PVs must be initialized before you can use them in some other VG. Run "pvcreate -ff on /dev/hd[abe-h]" on them. Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:14:08PM +0200, Kjetil H. Paulsen wrote: > Hi > > One of the disks in my volume was destroyed, I really don't care about > the data but now I can't remove my volume group. > And I can't add the disks to other volumes either. Tried the UUID fixer, > but no luck :( > Any help appreciated... (using RH9 and LVM 1.0.3) > > Pvscan: > pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdg" is associated to unknown VG > "stuff_group" (run vgscan) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdh" is in no VG [114.50 GB] > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hde" is associated to unknown VG > "stuff_group" (run vgscan) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdf" is associated to unknown VG > "stuff_group" (run vgscan) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hda" is associated to unknown VG > "stuff_group" (run vgscan) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdb" is associated to unknown VG > "stuff_group" (run vgscan) > pvscan -- total: 6 [296.77 GB] / in use: 5 [182.27 GB] / in no VG: 1 > [114.50 GB] > > Vgscan: > vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): current PV" can't get data of > volume group "stuff_group" from physical volume(s) > vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created > vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume > group > > [root@theone root]# vgchange -a n stuff_group > vgchange -- couldn't open volume group "stuff_group" group special file > vgchange -- try vgmknodes > > [root@theone root]# vgmnodes > -bash: vgmnodes: command not found > [root@theone root]# vgmknodes > vgmknodes -- no volume groups found to create nodes for > > [root@theone root]# vgmknodes stuff_group > vgmknodes -- volume group "stuff_group" doesn't exist > > [root@theone root]# vgremove stuff_group > vgremove -- volume group "stuff_group" doesn't exist > > > /kjetilhp > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
