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Delete volume group when physical disk is missing.

Leif Halvarsson_2 — Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:39:52 GMT

Hi,
How can I delete a volume group when the physical disk is missing. The volume group is deactivated and when I try "vgremove vg01" I get "Volume group is not activated". And "vgchange -a y vgo1" :

vgchange: Warning: Couldn't attach to the volume group physical volume "/dev/dsk/c4t0d2":
Cross-device link
vgchange: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c4t0d2":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
vgchange: Warning: couldn't query all of the physical volumes.
vgchange: Couldn't activate volume group "vg01":
Quorum not present, or some physical volume(s) are missing.

Re: Delete volume group when physical disk is missing.

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:42:43 GMT

Hi Leif:

Try 'vgreduce -f'.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Delete volume group when physical disk is missing.

Robert-Jan Goossens — Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:48:43 GMT

Think you can use vgexport here.

Robert-Jan.

Re: Delete volume group when physical disk is missing.

John Payne_2 — Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:55:34 GMT

'vgexport vg01' will do what you want it to do.

Hope it helps

John

Re: Delete volume group when physical disk is missing.

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 16 Jan 2003 21:01:07 GMT

Hi (again):

Oh, sorry, yes, use 'vgexport' to remove the whole volume *group*.

/no_points_please/

...JRF...

Re: Delete volume group when physical disk is missing.

Leif Halvarsson_2 — Thu, 16 Jan 2003 21:06:31 GMT

Hi,
Vgreduce need an active volumegroup but vgexport worked.

Thanks to all of you.

Regards,
Leif