What difference would it make rebooting the server? To recreate the missing drive/PV I'd need a blank drive right? I don't have that, the drive was replace with another drive that I just called pv05 and is now active and being used. On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Scott Merrilees <scott@merrilees.net> wrote: > If you have a running production on the machine, and don't want to > reboot, or otherwise break it, then it might be a good idea to spin up > a virtual machine and break it in a similar way, and use that to test. > > It seems like lvm just uses the device mapper to maintain current > state, so dmsetup is probably ok, but ... YMMV. > > I would try dmsetup remove > > then make sure the vgscan etal work ok without problems. > > If you get pv not found errors, then you might have to try re-creating > pvs with the correct uuids. > -- > Scott Merrilees > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
