On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 20:41 +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > To remove the metadata areas you need to: > > get an up-to-date metadata backup (vgcfgbackup) > > pvcreate --restorefile pointing at a copy of that backup file requesting 0 metadata areas > and specifying the same uuid as it had before > > vgcfgrestore from the backup file > This doesn't look like something you can do with the volume group active (with cluster lvm anyway): [root@testnode0 ~]# pvcreate --restorefile san-metadata -u fTLglk-j1C1-02Z7-8k6l-DTAm-2WNj-9ZGT19 --metadatacopies 0 /dev/hdb -ff Really INITIALIZE physical volume "/dev/hdb" of volume group "san" [y/n]? y Can't open /dev/hdb exclusively. Mounted filesystem? Is that right, or am I missing something? Thanks, John. _______________________________________________ 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/
