filesystem unmounted

[khilari]

Hi Guys, i was letting go of some filesystems so i unmounted them and they unmounted without any error.. But when i was freeing up the disks from the volume group i did a pvdisplay and saw those lvs still using those disks and thus couldnt remove those disks.. What can i do to free those PE'S From LE'S... I have unmounted the filesystem what else can i do.... I need to get those disks reclaimed by the storage guys......
Thanks

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Simply unmounting a fileystem does nothing to the filesystem or the logical volume that contains it.

If you want to return the physical extents used by the logical volume to the volume group, use 'lvremove'.

If you want to remove a physical volume from a volume group, use 'vgreduce'.

If you want to destroy the filesystems, logical volumes and volume group and deploy the associated physical volumes (disks) elsewhere, 'vgexport' the volume group.

Have a look at the manpages, and most importantly at the Managing Disks and Files chapter (#6) in the Managing Systems and Workgroups guide:

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90950/index.html

Regards!

...JRF...

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

Allow me to also add that SAM will be a tool of choice to understand and perform these operations.

hope this helps too!

kind regards
yogeeraj