LVM -- removing logical volumes from a file system

[Markku Kolkka]

tokyoi at mac.com kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika lauantai, 23. 
syyskuuta 2006 01:46):
> Am
> I right in thinking that the various commands to remove
> volumes simply mean that logical volume management is disabled
> and that the data remains intact, for me to administer it
> again via fdisk and /etc/fstab?

You're wrong. Removing a logical volume essentially deletes the 
data. The actual bits will still be somewhere on the disk but 
without the LVM metadata they will be inaccessible.

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 Markku Kolkka
 markku.kolkka at iki.fi