<div dir="ltr"><div> On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:45:16 +0100, John Leach wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 20:41 +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:<br>> To remove the metadata areas you need to:<br>> <br>>    get an up-to-date metadata backup (vgcfgbackup)<br>> <br>>   pvcreate --restorefile pointing at a copy of that backup file requesting 0 metadata areas<br>> and specifying the same uuid as it had before<br>> <br>>   vgcfgrestore from the backup file<br>>  <br>This doesn't look like something you can do with the volume group active<br>(with cluster lvm anyway):<br>[root testnode0 ~]# pvcreate --restorefile san-metadata -u fTLglk-j1C1-02Z7-8k6l-DTAm-2WNj-9ZGT19 --metadatacopies 0 /dev/hdb -ff<br>Really INITIALIZE physical volume "/dev/hdb" of volume group "san" [y/n]? y<br>  Can't open /dev/hdb exclusively.  Mounted filesystem?<br>Is that right, or am I missing something?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi John,</div><div><br></div><div>I know it's been a long time but, Did you found out a solution for this ?</div><div><br></div><div>I'm trying to follow the same scenario to increase the metadatasize and got stuck at the same point.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Charles</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">  <table style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">
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