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How to remove vg + lv?

linux-lvm Hans Kraus 1 participant 1 message Jan 29, 2014

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Hi,

A HD in my lvm2 array got flakey and I wanted to be on the safe side and move its contents with pvmove.

During that operation the HD died completely, even a reboot didn't revive it anymore. Now I tried to remove the vg and lv to be able to set it up again (its for backup purposes, therefore the contents are reproducible). I got the results:

root@elefant:/# pvmove --abort
  Couldn't find device with uuid TLYwDv-aNDB-TM6g-oLTf-pjdj-TN4E-Yr8KHQ.
  Couldn't find device with uuid CP2BAI-oZCw-woFK-MfLN-jAFD-66mj-aCLz3S.
  Cannot change VG vg_new while PVs are missing.
  Consider vgreduce --removemissing.
root@elefant:/# vgreduce --removemissing --force vg_new
  Couldn't find device with uuid TLYwDv-aNDB-TM6g-oLTf-pjdj-TN4E-Yr8KHQ.
  Couldn't find device with uuid CP2BAI-oZCw-woFK-MfLN-jAFD-66mj-aCLz3S.
  Removing partial LV lv_new.
  Can't remove locked LV lv_new
root@elefant:/# vgremove vg_new
  Couldn't find device with uuid TLYwDv-aNDB-TM6g-oLTf-pjdj-TN4E-Yr8KHQ.
  Couldn't find device with uuid CP2BAI-oZCw-woFK-MfLN-jAFD-66mj-aCLz3S.
  WARNING: 2 physical volumes are currently missing from the system.
Do you really want to remove volume group "vg_new" containing 1 logical volumes? [y/n]: y
  Can't remove locked LV lv_new

Your help is appreciated very much,
Hans