I forgot to mention 'open count' is 0 for both LV's. On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Rene C. <openvz@dokbua.com> wrote: > Thanks. > > dmsetup status does indeed show the orphan LV's vg04-vz and vg04-swap as active. > > There seems to be two ways to clear them, dmsetup clear and dmsetup > remove - which one is the best to use? Anything I should be > particularly careful about to not mess up things? > > Neither partition are active in Linux, both were unmounted before > removing the drive. > > > > On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Keith Keller > <kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: >> On 2012-09-01, Rene C. <openvz@dokbua.com> wrote: >>> We had a disk fail in a server and replaced it before removing the >>> drive from LVM. >>> >>> The server has 4 physical drives (PV's), each with it's own volume >>> group (VG). Each VG has 2 or more logical volumes (LV's.) Now LVM is >>> complaining about the missing drive. So we have a VG (vg04) with two >>> LV's that have become orphans than we need to clear out of the system. >>> >>> The problem is every time we run any LVM command we get some 'read >>> failed' errors. I've tried different commands to try to clear it out >>> but so far without luck: >> >> [snip] >> >>> The missing VG and LV's are not important, we just want to remove them. >> >> I believe that you can use dmsetup to remove the vestiges of old unused >> LVs and VGs. Of course you *must* be careful that you don't >> fumblefingers the command. ;-) I don't recall the exact syntax, so >> check out man dmsetup, and if you have questions, hope that someone with >> more experience can reply. (I did this safely many months ago, but I do >> not recall the exact syntax I used.) >> >> --keith >> >> >> -- >> kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/