<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Sorry if everyone already got this. I don't see it in the archives and I just subscribed to the mailing list itself..<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div>Hello all,<br><br>I am having an issue where it seems that the vgs command is adding new LV's to the /etc/lvm/cache/.cache but they never get removed when the LV's are deleted. <br><br>Basically this eventually causes me to run out of space in /var/log because dmeventd is reading the cache file and trying to stat all the removed LV's which leads to the log files having a bunch of cannot stat lv because it was one that was removed.<br><br>Here is what I do:<br><br>-bash-3.2$ sudo lvcreate --name tom2323tt --size 20G sys<br>-bash-3.2$ sudo /usr/sbin/vgs --separator : --noheadings --units b --unbuffered --nosuffix --options vg_size,vg_free sys<br>-bash-3.2$ sudo cat /etc/lvm/cache/.cache | grep tom<br># This file is automatically maintained by lvm.<br> "/dev/mapper/sys-tom2323tt",<br> "/dev/sys/tom2323tt",<br>-bash-3.2$ sudo lvremove /dev/sys/tom2323tt<br>-bash-3.2$ sudo /usr/sbin/vgs --separator : --noheadings --units b --unbuffered --nosuffix --options vg_size,vg_free sys<br> <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1282225911_0">497717084160</span>:436295696384<br>-bash-3.2$ sudo cat /etc/lvm/cache/.cache | grep tom<br># This file is automatically maintained by lvm.<br> "/dev/mapper/sys-tom2323tt",<br> "/dev/sys/tom2323tt",<br><br>This is running rhel5.4 with lvm2-<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1282225911_1">2.02.46</span>-8.el5.<br><br>I know that do get cleaned up by vgscan but we currently aren't running it.<br><br>Does anyone know why they aren't deleted? Am I missing something?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Tom</div> </div></div></div> </div></body></html>