Hello, I was trying to split a VG which has a thin pool in it. All data of the thin pool was residing a PV which stays in the VG. The PV I intended to split down only contained one LV which had no relation to the thin pool whatsoever. When I tried to use vgsplit, first it was telling me to deactivate the thin pool, and when I did that, I got this: root@thinkpad:~# vgsplit --verbose thinkvg adatavg /dev/sdb1 Checking for new volume group "adatavg" Checking for volume group "thinkvg" Archiving volume group "thinkvg" metadata (seqno 143). Writing out updated volume groups Archiving volume group "adatavg" metadata (seqno 0). LV thinpool: segment 1 has inconsistent LV area 0 Internal error: LV segments corrupted in thinpool. After playing with it for a time with no success, I decided to forcefully remove the PV from the VG, and just disconnected the drive. On the origin machine, I could use "vgreduce --removemissing --force thinkvg" to get rid of the disconnected PV without any problem. Then I moved the disconnected PV to another system, which is now missing the other PV. I also tried vgreduce to get rid of the other PV, but I got this: root@blackpad:~# vgreduce --removemissing --force thinkvg Couldn't find device with uuid wlyc2h-ob6Y-zZae-SIo1-JhCn-aKwG-eq2fn2. Removing partial LV thinpool. Cannot activate thinkvgthinpool_tmeta: pool incomplete. Failed to update pool thinkvg/thinpool. It seems LVM can't really handle to split or reduce VGs which has thin pools. Any suggestions what should I do now to remove the missing PV on the other host? LVM version: 2.02.111(2) (2014-09-01) Library version: 1.02.90 (2014-09-01) Driver version: 4.29.0 Regards, MegaBrutal _______________________________________________ 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/