[linux-lvm] Problem deleteing PV's

Patrick Caulfield caulfield at sistina.com
Fri May 25 07:43:45 UTC 2001


On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 10:40:35AM -0700, Justin Booth wrote:
> Tried doing the "dd if of bs count" stuff and now I'm recieving a
> pvscan -- ERROR "pv_reaad(): PV identifier invalid" reading physical volumes
> 
> any ideas ???
> 

Stop worrying about it?

Those disk are no longer PVs so what's the problem? In fact when a PV is no
longer in a VG (ie shows up in pvscan but not allocated to a VG) then you are
free to reuse the disk/partition for something else.

It's OK, your PVs are deleted. Honest :-)

patrick




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