From: Patrick Caulfield <caulfield@sistina.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Get rid of files of a non existing volume group
Date: Sat Jul 6 03:27:02 2002 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020706082758.GC13154@tykepenguin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020705205324.GA1287@glorybox.de>
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:53:24PM +0200, Kai Weber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have lost a hard disk (died). I had a volume group on this disk. Now I
> have replaced the disk with a new one and wanted to create the old scheme
> on this disk:
>
> $ vgcreate datavg /dev/hdb1
> vgcreate -- directory /dev/datavg already exists
>
> As you can see the old /dev/datavg still exists on my root-partition. How
> do I get rid of the old files? There is no VG datavg anymore, but I want to
> have the name back.
>
> Can I 'rm -rf /dev/datavg' the files? Or should I do a vgextend?
You can safely delete the directory. When you re-created the VG and LVs then
nodes will be re-created.
> vgscan does not find the VG datavg anymore.
Well...er... if it's a totally new disk it won't. :)
patrick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-06 3:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-05 15:53 [linux-lvm] Get rid of files of a non existing volume group Kai Weber
2002-07-06 3:27 ` Patrick Caulfield [this message]
2002-07-06 8:01 ` Kai Weber
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