Re: Forcibly remove broken disk from LV

[Jesper Juhl]

On 04/07/07, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 04/07/07, Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have a disk that only gives SCSI errors etc which
> > I want to remove from the VG. But vgreduce only hangs
> > and so does pvremove...
> >
> > If I physically remove the disk, the vg/pv/lv etc isn't
> > accessible so the vgreduce won't work (claims that it
> > can't find any PV's etc).
> >
> > So how do I remove the disk?
>
> vgreduce --removemissing
>
> should do the trick I'd say.
Ohh and by the way, pvremove also has a --force option - if needed.


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