On Mon, January 30, 2012 12:03, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > > The partition maps were apparently created with kpartx's > "-p p" option > to force a partition separator of 'p' (the default is to > use a 'p' if > the device name ends with a numeral but no separator > otherwise). > > If the maps were created with -pp kpartx will refuse to > remove them if > the option is not given (but helpfully doesn't report any > error.. :-/): > > # ls /dev/mapper/vg_mother-lv_base* > /dev/mapper/vg_mother-lv_base > /dev/mapper/vg_mother-lv_basep1 > # kpartx -d /dev/mapper/vg_mother-lv_base > # ls /dev/mapper/vg_mother-lv_base* > /dev/mapper/vg_mother-lv_base > /dev/mapper/vg_mother-lv_basep1 > # kpartx -d -pp /dev/mapper/vg_mother-lv_base > # ls /dev/mapper/vg_mother-lv_base* > /dev/mapper/vg_mother-lv_base > > Just add the -pp to your kpartx command lines and it > should remove the > devices. > [root@vhost01 ~]# kpartx -d -pp /dev/mapper/vg_vhost01-lv_vm_base [root@vhost01 ~]# kpartx -d -pp /dev/mapper/vg_vhost01-lv_vm_basep1 failed to stat() /dev/mapper/vg_vhost01-lv_vm_basep1 [root@vhost01 ~]# /sbin/lvremove -f /dev/vg_vhost01/lv_vm_base Logical volume "lv_vm_base" successfully removed And repeated as required. Success! Thank you so very much. I would never have discovered this on my own. Never. [root@vhost01 ~]# dmsetup ls --tree vg_vhost01-lv_swap (253:1) └─ (8:2) vg_vhost01-lv_root (253:0) └─ (8:2) vg_vhost01-lv_centos_repos (253:8) └─ (8:2) vg_vhost01-lv_tmp (253:2) └─ (8:2) vg_vhost01-lv_vm_inet02.harte--lyne.ca_00 (253:21) └─ (8:2) vg_vhost01-lv_vm_inet03.harte--lyne.ca_00 (253:23) └─ (8:2) vg_vhost01-lv_log (253:4) └─ (8:2) vg_vhost01-lv_vm_inet04.harte--lyne.ca_00 (253:25) └─ (8:2) vg_vhost01-lv_spool (253:3) └─ (8:2) vg_vhost01-lv_vm_inet08.harte--lyne.ca_00 (253:24) └─ (8:2) vg_vhost01-lv_vm_inet09.harte--lyne.ca_00 (253:22) └─ (8:2) Everything appears clean now and I have confirmed that the disk space has been returned to the virt-manager storage pool. Again, thank you. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 _______________________________________________ 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/
