[linux-lvm] how to remove PV from a VG?

[Adrien Farkas]

Heinz Mauelshagen (mauelsha at ez-darmstadt.telekom.de) wrote :

> > 
> > Hey folks,
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> Hi Freddy.
> 
> > the subject says it (almost) all, I need to remove three PVs that were added to my VG by mistake (namely /dev/sdi, /dev/sdj and /dev/sdk), I guess you see where the error is. I can access data on previous PVs (yet), but don't know how to remove PVs, there is nothing linke 'pvremove'. I can assure you there is no data (perhaps except signature) on those disks.
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> vgreduce YourVG /dev/sd[i-k]
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> - or, if the 3 partitions hold the only empty PVs of YourVG -
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> vgreduce -a YourVG

yes, helped quite enough, just the /dev/sd[ghi] devices are still in list of valid PVs and when I run pvscan my partitions get destroyed (I suppose because of rewriting LVM marker to the device). How do I really, physically remove the devices from the PV list?

Thanks in advance,
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