[linux-lvm] Replacing a physical volume
Michael T. Babcock
mike at mikebabcock.ca
Fri Dec 3 21:37:50 UTC 2004
Jetkins at austinlogistics.com wrote:
>What will happen when the system reboots and finds /dev/sdb is now blank?
>Will LVM get upset, or will it simply forget about the PV that used to be
>there, so that I can create a new PV on a partition on the new disk
>(/dev/sdb1)?
>
>
I've done this.
Once you pvremove the disk/partition, it is no longer needed. Unplug
it, and reboot in runlevel 1 if you wish and you should see no errors.
Personally the whole physical volume concept needs reworking, but thats
just my $0.02.
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Michael T. Babcock
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