Hi
found this on http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Unix/Linux/LINUX_ManagingPhysicalLogicalVolumes.shtml : *Delete Physical / Logical Volumes* Before going into the details of how to drop all of the physical and logical volumes created in this article, it is very common to only want to remove a Logical Volume from a Volume Group. Let's say we no longer needed lvol15. We can remove it and place its PE's back in the empty pool for the Volume Group. First, unmounting its filesystem (if it is mounted). Next, deactive it with lvchange and finally delete it with lvremove. Here is an example that removes the lvol15: # *lvchange -a n /dev/pv1/lvol15* # *lvremove /dev/pv1/lvol15* lvremove -- do you really want to remove "/dev/pv1/lvol15"? [y/n]: *y* lvremove -- doing automatic backup of volume group "pv1" lvremove -- logical volume "/dev/pv1/lvol15" successfully removed Now, it you would like to delete all physical and logical volumes created in this article. In this example, we no longer need the /dev/pv1 Physical Volume. *lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol1 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol2 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol3 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol4 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol5 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol6 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol7 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol8 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol9 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol10 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol11 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol12 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol13 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol14 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol15 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol16 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol17 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol18 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol19 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol20 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol21 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol22 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol23 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol24 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol25 lvremove -f /dev/pv1/lvol26 vgchange -a n /dev/pv1 vgremove /dev/pv1* So maybe the lvchange is missing? Try lvremove also with the -f (force) option. greetings, vitaminx 2009/6/27 Klaus Pieper <[email protected]> > try: >> >> swapoff >> remove the LV >> swapon >> > > > groucho:~# swapoff -a > groucho:~# lvremove -fv /dev/vg01/swap > Using logical volume(s) on command line > Can't remove open logical volume "swap" > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > > -- www ... http://www.callistix.net/ mail ... [email protected] irc ... #chezpaeule @ euirc mud ... vitaminx @ aardmud
