[linux-lvm] Removing vg and lv after physical drive has been removed

[Rene C.]

What difference would it make rebooting the server?

To recreate the missing drive/PV I'd need a blank drive right?  I
don't have that, the drive was replace with another drive that I just
called pv05 and is now active and being used.




On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Scott Merrilees <scott at merrilees.net> wrote:
> If you have a running production on the machine, and don't want to
> reboot, or otherwise break it, then it might be a good idea to spin up
> a virtual machine and break it in a similar way, and use that to test.
>
> It seems like lvm just uses the device mapper to maintain current
> state, so dmsetup is probably ok, but ... YMMV.
>
> I would try dmsetup remove
>
> then make sure the vgscan etal work ok without problems.
>
> If you get pv not found errors, then you might have to try re-creating
> pvs with the correct uuids.
> --
> Scott Merrilees
>
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