Removing Volume group

[Olga_1]

Hello,

I would like to completely remove vg11.
using vgremove, not vgexport.
This vg11 is on EVA and in order to disconnect EVA from teh Unix server we need to cleane it up completely.

I have already backup all the data and unmounted all the FS.
If I do vgchange -a n /dev/vg11
lvremove /dev/vg11/u01 gives error
Volume group not activated.

lvlnboot: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c10t0d1":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group ...etc for each path.


Thank you.

[Court Campbell · Accepted solution]

why not vgexport? then use pvremove on the disk(s).

If you must then you need to activate the vg. then lvremove the lvols. then you need to vgreduce the vg until you only have one disk left in the vg. then vgremove the vg. and finally use pvremove on the disk(s). But I still think vgexport is faster.

[Torsten.]

You need to lvremove first, then de-activate the VG.

Activate the vg again and remove the LV.

Anyway, if you vgexport the VG, you remove it from the system too.

[Olga_1]

Thank you