[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.
-- 
Michael T. Babcock




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