-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > I have a disk that only gives SCSI errors etc which > I want to remove from the VG. But vgreduce only hangs > and so does pvremove... > > If I physically remove the disk, the vg/pv/lv etc isn't > accessible so the vgreduce won't work (claims that it > can't find any PV's etc). > > So how do I remove the disk? > You can activate what's left of the volume group with: vgchange --partial -ay <VolGroup> You can remove the missing PV from the VG with: vgreduce --removemissing <VolGroup> Note that this will also remove any logical volumes that were using the missing physical volume. You can run it with --test first to see what effect it will have. Regards, Bryn. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGhNyj6YSQoMYUY94RAj1/AKC5MV2UOwX1H9fJDEPB29gAzAwLXQCg1c6b fd0Tnpn1dInlwx5TnH8G2fM= =WGy8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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/
