[linux-lvm] Problem deleteing PV's

[Austin Gonyou]

Have you tried a vgscan to see if there are VG's that you don't need? What
about pvchange -x n /dev/sdxx?

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Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: austin at coremetrics.com

On Wed, 23 May 2001, Justin Booth wrote:

> Hello,
>
>  I have a problem deleteing 4 PV's that I managed to create None of the
> PV's are in a VG, and I can't figure out how to get rid of them
>
> when I do a pvscan It returns something like this:
>
> pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while)
> pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdb" is in no VG [12.16] MB
> pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdb1" is in no VG [8.54] GB
> pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdc" is in no VG [12.16] MB
> pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdc1" is in no VG [8.54] GB
> pvscan -- total: 4 [17.11 GB] / in use 0 [0] / in no VG:  4 [17.11 GB]
>
>
> How do I get rid of these entries to start over again?
> I've tried deleteing the partition table and recreating them but a
> subsequent vgscan always brings them back into pvscan
>
>
>  Thanks much,
>       Justin Booth
>