It says you can't remove an active VG -> vgchange -an LVM2 ; vgremove LVM2 On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 11:12:49PM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote: > Hello, > > I have a volume group with one physical volume and I can't remove this > volume group :-( > > vdr:~# vgdisplay LVM2 > --- Volume group --- > VG Name LVM2 > VG Access read/write > VG Status available/resizable > VG # 1 > MAX LV 256 > Cur LV 0 > Open LV 0 > MAX LV Size 2 TB > Max PV 256 > Cur PV 1 > Act PV 1 > VG Size 92.75 GB > PE Size 256 MB > Total PE 371 > Alloc PE / Size 0 / 0 > Free PE / Size 371 / 92.75 GB > VG UUID 2Oojws-3owd-iK1X-wbpy-Mx9X-CieY-7JN0b0 > > vdr:~# vgreduce LVM2 /dev/hdd1 > vgreduce -- can't reduce volume group "LVM2" to zero physical volumes > > vdr:~# vgremove LVM2 > vgremove -- ERROR: can't remove active volume group "LVM2" > > What I have to do? > > Thanks in advance > Matthias > -- > Don't Panic > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 Cluster and Storage Development 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@RedHat.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ 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/
