From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3DDAB38C.8050204@backflip.com> From: Kenny Gorman MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3DDAA535.3030206@backflip.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] Re: LVM and mounting 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: Date: Tue Nov 19 15:56:01 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Just to add to this (I am not sure if this hit the list anyways, I just subscribed). I am running SuSE 2.4.16-64GB, and lvm 1.0. -kg Kenny Gorman wrote: > I am having a problem where when I boot up the machine, the machine says > I need to fsck one of my logical volumes. This volume I just added a > new filesystem to, but it hung on mount, so I rebooted. Then I tried to > lvremove the volume, and it says it successfully removed it, then I am > running vgchange -a n and vgremove . But it says I can't > remove the group.. because it belongs to a volume. > > I think my lvmtab or someting is all messed up because the some messages > seem to indicate that the volume is there, and some say it's not. > lvdisplay says it does not exist. > > I would just like to remove the entire volume and group and start over > so I can get my machine to boot. Is there some option to just 'ignore' > or 'force' destroy the volume? If I fdisk the disk will I still get > this error? > > Any help would be great!! > > thx > -kg >