Hi! I'm trying to remove an old disk from my LVM. To do this i'm trying to reduce the size of the filesystem and the lv, and then move the pv's in /dev/hdj to the free pv's. Don't know if this is right, but it should ;) Everything is well untill i try to move the pv's from the old disk. The disk is old, and produces read errors after some time of activity, but works fine after a reboot. Here is the last portion of output from pvmove: Archiving volume group "vg1" metadata. Creating logical volume pvmove0 Moving 609 extents of logical volume vg1/lv1 Finding volume group for uuid yzFsbKuV0i2lSi0dfwGzbmBZivDI8BvA00000000000000000000000000000000 Found /dev/hdj in VG vg1 Found /dev/hdc in VG vg1 Found /dev/cdrom in VG vg1 Found /dev/hdg in VG vg1 Found /dev/hdi in VG vg1 Found /dev/hdk in VG vg1 Found /dev/hdb in VG vg1 Found /dev/hdd in VG vg1 Found /dev/hdf in VG vg1 Found /dev/hdh in VG vg1 Found /dev/hdl in VG vg1 Found volume group "vg1" Setting activation/missing_stripe_filler to /dev/ioerror Updating volume group metadata LV stripe found in LV lv1: unsupported by format1 ABORTING: Volume group metadata update failed. Unlocking /var/lock/lvm/V_vg1 I cannot find any relevant info on this... can anyone help? metadata follows: # Generated by LVM2: Sun Sep 12 03:41:40 2004 contents = "Text Format Volume Group" version = 1 description = "Created *before* executing 'pvmove -vv /dev/hdj'" creation_host = "philos" # Linux philos 2.4.26-1-686-smp #1 SMP Thu Jul 22 13:08:23 JST 2004 i686 creation_time = 1094953300 # Sun Sep 12 03:41:40 2004 vg1 { id = "yzFsbK-uV0i-2lSi-0dfw-Gzbm-BZiv-DI8BvA" seqno = 0 status = ["RESIZEABLE", "READ", "WRITE"] system_id = "PV_IMPphilos1086031785" extent_size = 65536 # 32 Megabytes max_lv = 256 max_pv = 256 physical_volumes { pv0 { id = "MvZ48T-cpKL-BN1k-LNGv-DI9T-eBK7-PuQMI5" device = "/dev/hdc" # Hint only status = ["ALLOCATABLE"] pe_start = 65920 pe_count = 3576 # 111.75 Gigabytes } pv1 { id = "palLos-MohQ-iNl0-7lWK-Zyz1-FBha-8oMZ11" device = "/dev/cdrom" # Hint only status = ["ALLOCATABLE"] pe_start = 65920 pe_count = 4768 # 149 Gigabytes } pv2 { id = "pyvQBd-E3G2-Meoa-ZgTi-jVeS-cY3v-TsD4oO" device = "/dev/hdg" # Hint only status = ["ALLOCATABLE"] pe_start = 65920 pe_count = 3576 # 111.75 Gigabytes } pv3 { id = "lywGaK-nniq-t8YM-25Ab-gWb2-kx2Z-mgCSJd" device = "/dev/hdi" # Hint only status = ["ALLOCATABLE"] pe_start = 65920 pe_count = 3066 # 95.8125 Gigabytes } pv4 { id = "n9YoV5-1sEm-RKsx-mP6A-dyJR-cqc8-S6Ka7t" device = "/dev/hdk" # Hint only status = ["ALLOCATABLE"] pe_start = 65920 pe_count = 3576 # 111.75 Gigabytes } pv5 { id = "Y6xsQn-2OqZ-pD6v-wIDA-G5rw-T7mq-KruhzS" device = "/dev/hdb" # Hint only status = ["ALLOCATABLE"] pe_start = 65920 pe_count = 2453 # 76.6562 Gigabytes } pv6 { id = "j3uj38-jn1l-1gaS-Jsro-8yqj-fYO4-X2KNhk" device = "/dev/hdd" # Hint only status = ["ALLOCATABLE"] pe_start = 65920 pe_count = 3680 # 115 Gigabytes } pv7 { id = "epIqtv-vZU5-x4nb-1VAx-hkpv-IRUa-YFn96f" device = "/dev/hdf" # Hint only status = ["ALLOCATABLE"] pe_start = 65920 pe_count = 4768 # 149 Gigabytes } pv8 { id = "yIHoF5-rVEX-bcPW-q5NU-Hwen-pdob-hB1TIz" device = "/dev/hdh" # Hint only status = ["ALLOCATABLE"] pe_start = 65920 pe_count = 3576 # 111.75 Gigabytes } pv9 { id = "ddsycy-sL46-I3mW-U2B5-fD4Q-e61j-0Q1wzs" device = "/dev/hdj" # Hint only status = ["ALLOCATABLE"] pe_start = 65920 pe_count = 609 # 19.0312 Gigabytes } pv10 { id = "GiuyLe-2FUr-rVGB-kDer-qsSX-bZ47-TOJ594" device = "/dev/hdl" # Hint only status = ["ALLOCATABLE"] pe_start = 65920 pe_count = 4768 # 149 Gigabytes } } logical_volumes { lv1 { id = "000000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-000000" status = ["READ", "WRITE", "VISIBLE"] allocation_policy = "normal" read_ahead = 10000 segment_count = 12 segment1 { start_extent = 0 extent_count = 3066 # 95.8125 Gigabytes type = "striped" stripe_count = 1 # linear stripes = [ "pv3", 0 ] } segment2 { start_extent = 3066 extent_count = 2453 # 76.6562 Gigabytes type = "striped" stripe_count = 1 # linear stripes = [ "pv5", 0 ] } segment3 { start_extent = 5519 extent_count = 128 # 4 Gigabytes type = "striped" stripe_count = 1 # linear stripes = [ "pv0", 0 ] } segment4 { start_extent = 5647 extent_count = 609 # 19.0312 Gigabytes type = "striped" stripe_count = 1 # linear stripes = [ "pv9", 0 ] } segment5 { start_extent = 6256 extent_count = 3680 # 115 Gigabytes type = "striped" stripe_count = 1 # linear stripes = [ "pv6", 0 ] } segment6 { start_extent = 9936 extent_count = 3576 # 111.75 Gigabytes type = "striped" stripe_count = 1 # linear stripes = [ "pv2", 0 ] } segment7 { start_extent = 13512 extent_count = 3576 # 111.75 Gigabytes type = "striped" stripe_count = 1 # linear stripes = [ "pv8", 0 ] } segment8 { start_extent = 17088 extent_count = 3448 # 107.75 Gigabytes type = "striped" stripe_count = 1 # linear stripes = [ "pv0", 128 ] } segment9 { start_extent = 20536 extent_count = 4768 # 149 Gigabytes type = "striped" stripe_count = 1 # linear stripes = [ "pv1", 0 ] } segment10 { start_extent = 25304 extent_count = 4768 # 149 Gigabytes type = "striped" stripe_count = 1 # linear stripes = [ "pv7", 0 ] } segment11 { start_extent = 30072 extent_count = 3576 # 111.75 Gigabytes type = "striped" stripe_count = 1 # linear stripes = [ "pv4", 0 ] } segment12 { start_extent = 33648 extent_count = 4128 # 129 Gigabytes type = "striped" stripe_count = 1 # linear stripes = [ "pv10", 0 ] } } } } _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/