How to get rid of problem volume group

[Richard Ray]

I have a volume groug on a server running 10.20 I want to delete. When I use SAM to delete the logical volume I got

vgcfgbackup: /etc/lvmtab is out of date with the running kernel: Kernel indicates 2 disks for "/dev/vg02"; /etc/lvmtab has 1 disks. Cannot proceed with backup.

Can you advise how to proceed?

[Coolmar]

Looks like you have to get remove any logical volumes from the volume group; then remove the physical volumes (disks) from the volume group; then remove the volume group.
OR...from the command line just vgexport -v /dev/vg02

[Sandman! · Accepted solution]

Either remove all the lvols that reside on the unknown disk and then forcibly reduce the PV. lvols that have LEs on ??? PEs are the erroneous ones and you have to lvremove(1M) them before running "vgreduce -f".

Another option is to vgexport / vgimport the VG and thereafter run "vgreduce -f".

[Richard Ray]

Used vgexport to get rid of volume and reuse disk.

Thanks

[Sp4admin]

Hi,

Looks like you need to remove all the logial volumes first from the volume groups. Then vgreduce

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