[linux-lvm] Removing a (potentially unused?) PV from a VG
Harold Pimentel
haroldpimentel at gmail.com
Fri Feb 8 20:18:48 UTC 2013
Hi all,
So, I have the following setup:
- Ubuntu 12,04
- 1 6TB physical volume (the one with data) [ext4]
- 1 13TB PV (no data... I think?) [ext4]
Here is the story...
- I created an ext4 on the 13TB PV, added the 13TB to the VG to make a
13TB volume group.
- Everything went fine and then I ran:
Code:
resize2fs /dev/volgroup/volume
And to my surprise.. I couldn't resize past 16TB ! (crap! should have
checked this first!).
So, nothing happened.. Now what I want to do is remove the 13TB PV
from the VG and do something else with it... but I get the following
error:
Code:
sudo vgreduce -t home_volume_group /dev/sdc1
Test mode: Metadata will NOT be updated.
Physical volume "/dev/sdc1" still in use
I don't remember the message, but I was going to try to use pvmove to
move stuff off of /dev/sdc1 and it failed stating something like "No
available extents"... which I don't even expect to have anything
written to that disk since nothing was written after the install.
How can I safely remove this PV from the VG?
Thanks a bunch!
Harold
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