<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.100" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I have a problem deleteing 4 PV's that I managed to create None of the PV's are in a VG, and I can't figure out how to get rid of them</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>when I do a pvscan It returns something like this:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdb" is in no VG [12.16] MB</FONT></DIV> <DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdb1" is in no VG [8.54] GB</FONT></DIV> <DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdc" is in no VG [12.16] MB</FONT></DIV> <DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdc1" is in no VG [8.54] GB</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>pvscan -- total: 4 [17.11 GB] / in use 0 [0] / in no VG: 4 [17.11 GB]</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>How do I get rid of these entries to start over again?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've tried deleteing the partition table and recreating them but a subsequent vgscan always brings them back into pvscan</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Thanks much,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Justin Booth</FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>