Hi Did you used vgreduce to release free the disk? <div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 24, 2013 8:02 AM, "Joschi Brauchle" <<a href="mailto:joschi.brauchle@tum.de">joschi.brauchle@tum.de</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hello, I get the following error with lvm2.02.98: ----------- #/sbin/vgdisplay --units k -v 'system' --- Volume group --- VG Name system System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 1 Metadata Sequence No 13 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 0 Open LV 0 Max PV 0 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 104669184.00 KiB PE Size 4096.00 KiB Total PE 25554 Alloc PE / Size 0 / 0 KiB Free PE / Size 25554 / 104669184.00 KiB VG UUID Qs0uaZ-L88n-tC7T-fZQj-sgJY-2yRX-Dlt2Cr --- Physical volumes --- PV Name /dev/sda3 PV UUID wzGjXi-F2lT-d2d4-l5a6-EmfM-W838-YxaFIh PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 25554 / 25554 ----------- VG system is empty, but still: ----------- # /sbin/vgremove 'system' ----------- failes with status code 5, which means 'can't remove volume group containing logical volumes' (from man page). Looks like a bug in vgremove? Best regards, J Brauchle _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-lvm@redhat.com">linux-lvm@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm</a> read the LVM HOW-TO at <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/" target="_blank">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/</a> </blockquote></div>