how to reduce the volum group

[Mousa55]

Hi
how to reduce the volum group on a SAM
that to remove all which in it
becuase i am delete file from this vg by using rm command and i want to remove phisicaly from the same vg
thanks

[skt_skt]

I hope you requierment is to remove the disk from VG and make the disk is empty interm s of data.

vgchange -a n vgname
vgexport vgname
pvcreate raw-disk(use -f if failed;

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

1) vgdisplay -v
2) lvremove each logical volume displayed
3) vgreduce each disk out of the volume group
4) vgremove the volume group including the last disk.

SEP

[Basheer_2]

to remove/reduce vg2
1) bdf | grep vg2
this will give you all the file systems mounted for this vg2

2) umount each of the file systems

3) lvremove each-lvol

4) vgdisplay -v vg2 will give you all the physical volumes

if there is more than one, then do
vgreduce /dev/vg2 /dev/dsk/pv-path

repeat vgreduce for all pvs except the last one.
5) vgremove /dev/vg2

6) vi /etc/fstab
remove or comment out all the lvs for this vg.


first umount your file systems for each of the lvs.

vgdisplay -v | grep
Use Steve's stpes and

[Raj D.]

Nejad,

i) What is the output of:

# strings /etc/lvmtab | grep vg

ii)# ls -l /dev/ | grep vg

iii) vgdisplay -v | grep "VG Name"

Btw, you can reduce the vg with vgreduce command,
- if you mean to remove, do
(i) unmount all the LVs.
(ii) remove all the LV's
(ii) deactivate vg.
(iii) use vgremove.
cheers,
Raj.

[Shardha]

Dear

I believe you need to till the step 3. as mentioned by steven.
as you purpose is to remove one hdd from the existing vg.

Shardha.