Hi, I'm sorry that this message doesn't appear in the existing thread, but I received the mails in digest mode. Summary: I used "pvmove /dev/sda2 /dev/sda7", the system crashed and I get a invalid "pvmove0" LV I could not remove and prevented most actions on the VG (including destroying the VG!). "pvmove --abord" did not work (I searched a lot before asking here). In fact, LVM was still scanning /dev/sda7 even if it was not used as a physical volume and if I change the type of partition. I don't know exactly which of these two actions solved the problem (maybe both), but it did it: - I removed the unused partition /dev/sda7 (and filled the free space with /dev/zero so I don't get any problem in the future) - I restored the metadata under another VG name (so my existing physical volumes did not appear under the old corrupted VG), and I remove everything. Then I restored the metadata onder the previous VG name. And it worked I hope that it could help someone in the future. Fabien _______________________________________________ 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/
