Removed PE before removing VG

[CJENSEN_1]

Did a whoopsie. Now I'm trying to remove the VG and Logical volumes and I am getting: vgcfgbackup: invalid lvmrec on physical volume /dev/rdsk/c4t1d3. What's the workaround?

[John McWilliams_1]

Try using rmsf. I have done the same thing many time but found this command the other day

[CJENSEN_1]

in my subject, i meant PV (Physical Volume). I removed these prior to removing the logical volumes and volume groups.

[Patrick Wallek]

Use vgexport to wipe out the VG.

[CJENSEN_1]

when I try the vgexport command (vgexport -m vg16.mapfile /dev/vg16), unix indicates the vg is still active.

[CJENSEN_1]

I think I'm almost there:
1) mv lvmtab lvmtab.old
2) vgscan -an
3) vgdisplay -v no longer lists my defunct vg
4) I still have files in /dev/vg16 (where vg16 was the vg I want to remove). What is the proper procedure to remove the /dev/vg16 directory? (rmsf did not work).

[Sandman!]

rmsf removes only the device special files. Either rmdir or "rm -r dir_name" will work for removing the /dev/vg16 dir.

[CJENSEN_1]

Thanks everyone. Yes - I did not want to do the rmdir right away, thinking the rmsf would have encompassed that (was not sure). I have now removed those directories.