You need to deactivate all active LVs before trying to deactivate the VG. lvchange -an /dev/vgelg/lvelg
- Noam 2010/4/18 Tom Rosenfeld <[email protected]> > Hi Guys, > > I am having troupe with an LVM volume. I umounted a disk and moved it to a > new system. There I did pvscan and vgscan --mknodes > However I can do no further operations on the volume since LVM thinks it is > still open. It did not even create the block devise even though lvdisplay > show it exists. > > I am looking for a way to force the volume closed, but have not had any > luck. > See the output below. > > Thanks, > -tom > > > > > # vgchange -an vgelg > Can't deactivate volume group "vgelg" with 1 open logical volume(s) > # ls -l /dev/vgelg/lvelg > ls: /dev/vgelg/lvelg: No such file or directory > > # vgdisplay -v vgelg > Using volume group(s) on command line > Finding volume group "vgelg" > --- Volume group --- > VG Name vgelg > System ID > Format lvm2 > Metadata Areas 4 > Metadata Sequence No 7 > VG Access read/write > VG Status resizable > MAX LV 0 > Cur LV 1 > Open LV 1 > Max PV 0 > Cur PV 4 > Act PV 4 > VG Size 1.17 TB > PE Size 4.00 MB > Total PE 307196 > Alloc PE / Size 281600 / 1.07 TB > Free PE / Size 25596 / 99.98 GB > VG UUID GPsU3q-4Kv3-oRUk-rgLc-MKcw-eeL9-dA0z6L > > --- Logical volume --- > LV Name /dev/vgelg/lvelg > VG Name vgelg > LV UUID fjgl50-jLY1-72NL-VH9z-L1hX-JUo8-fMtJAy > LV Write Access read/write > LV Status available > # open 1 > LV Size 1.07 TB > Current LE 281600 > Segments 1 > Allocation inherit > Read ahead sectors 32768 > Block device 253:4 > > --- Physical volumes --- > PV Name /dev/sdk4 > PV UUID zm8X2J-aT8Q-CV9u-YnyE-cghe-oQlH-pefMJv > PV Status allocatable > Total PE / Free PE 76799 / 6399 > > PV Name /dev/sdk3 > PV UUID P7gDOr-Z9d7-tBJz-Jq84-j3nj-c0gL-5I1RRT > PV Status allocatable > Total PE / Free PE 76799 / 6399 > > PV Name /dev/sdk2 > PV UUID eOqwcK-2SJI-xuIT-daBW-sLfZ-Tu18-eTZBgl > PV Status allocatable > Total PE / Free PE 76799 / 6399 > > PV Name /dev/sdk1 > PV UUID nDlr5E-4bCh-sAOh-NjDe-fYn2-73Kd-lnqLxr > PV Status allocatable > Total PE / Free PE 76799 / 6399 > > > # lvdisplay /dev/vgelg/lvelg -v > Using logical volume(s) on command line > --- Logical volume --- > LV Name /dev/vgelg/lvelg > VG Name vgelg > LV UUID fjgl50-jLY1-72NL-VH9z-L1hX-JUo8-fMtJAy > LV Write Access read/write > LV Status available > # open 1 > LV Size 1.07 TB > Current LE 281600 > Segments 1 > Allocation inherit > Read ahead sectors 32768 > Block device 253:4 > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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