From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3BA670B3.7050707@kenamea.com> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:52:51 -0700 From: Kenny Gorman MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Phantom Vol Grp References: <3BA66769.1030001@kenamea.com> <20010917165416.A13723@sistina.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Yes! That was it. thanks! -kg AJ Lewis wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:13:13PM -0700, Kenny Gorman wrote: > >>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 >> > > I believe this is referring to the /dev/indxgrp directory...look at that and > if you know you don't need it, rm it. > >