How do I remove an inexistent VG!

[Max_10]

Someone removed physical disks but forgot remove the vg first!How do I remove the VG!

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

Perform a vgexport of this VG so as to remove it from /etc/lvmtab and directory of /dev/vgXX along with configuration files within it.

# vgexport vgXX

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Vijeesh CTK]

hi max,

u take a copy of /etc/lvmtab file.. and do a "vgscan" which will create a new lvmtab file..

or do a vgexport of that particular vg.

Regards,

Vijeesh CTK

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

Hi Max:

Please, just vgexport.

[Michael Tully]

Total agreement!

# /usr/sbin/vgexport /dev/yourvgname

[Heiner E. Lennackers]

In case of the VG has been activated even when some disks have been physically removed (quorum setting) then you have to deactivate your VG first:
vgchange -a n /dev/YourVG
vgexport /dev/YourVG

this will remove the VG and also the /dev/YourVG directory.
If you want to reuse the disks for a new VG you have to run a pvcreate -f on the rawdevicefiles of the disks.

Heiner

[T. M. Louah]

if the above didn`t work, it might be a tricky one.
.. verify urvg.conf by: strings /etc/lvmconf/urvg.conf if u see disk(s) there run: vgreduce -f /dev/urvg this will exclude the ghost disk.
.. if successfull run vgexport urvg

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