On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:06:47AM -0800, John DeFranco wrote: > My question is that is there a > way to force the deactivation to occur in this case? Not from lvm2 unless you restore the metadata from a backup first. To remove the logical volumes from the kernel, use 'dmsetup'. List what's there: dmsetup info -c *After* ensuring the open count is 0, remove individually with 'dmsetup remove' or all at once with 'dmsetup remove_all'. Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com _______________________________________________ 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/