Yes I tried that way too. I had tried restarting the system with no luck too. But when I changed to LVM2 it worked fine without any problems. I have no idea what was wrong. I tried to move several different disks and all gave the same error with LVM1. > Have you tried removing the one free PV rather than using "-a" ? > Have you run vgck to check volume group consistency ? > Does the machine have an extraordinary long uptime ? > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 04:40:44AM +0100, Spam wrote: >> >> I am trying to reduce a physical volume from my VG "Server" but >> when I get to the step "vgreduce" it fails with this error: >> >> vgreduce -- ERROR "parameter error" reducing volume group >> "Server" by physical volume >> "/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1" in kernel >> >> There is a logfile and debug output on http://tnonline.net/lvm.txt >> (also attached as lvm.zip). >> >> I am using Gentoo Linux, but tried with vanilla kernel 2.4.22 and >> lvm tools 1.0.7. _______________________________________________ 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/
