From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3BA66769.1030001@kenamea.com> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:13:13 -0700 From: Kenny Gorman MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] Phantom Vol Grp Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com I can not delete a vol grp, but it doesn't show as there. When I try to create a new one with the same name, then it says it exists... how do I 'clean out' old references? See below: colobus:~ # pvscan pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sdb1" of VG "oraredo1" [100 MB / 100 MB free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdb2" is in no VG [16.99 GB] pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sdc1" of VG "oraredo2" [100 MB / 100 MB free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdc2" is in no VG [16.99 GB] pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sdd1" of VG "redogrp3" [17.09 GB / 16.98 GB free] pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sdd2" of VG "sysgrp" [16.99 GB / 12.49 GB free] pvscan -- total: 6 [68.26 GB] / in use: 4 [34.28 GB] / in no VG: 2 [33.98 GB] colobus:~ # vgcreate indxgrp /dev/sdc2 vgcreate -- volume group directory or file already exists vgcreate -- please choose a different name colobus:~ # vgremove indxgrp vgremove -- ERROR: can't remove active volume group "indxgrp" colobus:~ # vgchange -a n indxgrp vgchange -- volume group "indxgrp" does not exist colobus:~ # vgdisplay indxgrp vgdisplay -- volume group "indxgrp" not found -kg