From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3E4295C1.9010802@motorola.com> From: Tom Georgoulias MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] cannot create a volume group named the same as one already removed 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: Thu Feb 6 11:05:02 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com I'm using lvm 1.0.3 that came with my Red Hat 7.3 system, with kernel 2.4.18-24.7.x. When I try to create a volume group that has the same name as one that existed in the past but was removed, I get an error stating that the volume group already exists and to use a different name. What can I do to fix this? I appreciate any tips. Most of the command outputs are below to help illustrate what I'm seeing/doing. Tom [root@mom root]# vgcreate volgrp2 /dev/hdg vgcreate -- volume group directory or file already exists vgcreate -- please choose a different name [root@mom root]# vgremove volgrp2 vgremove -- volume group "volgrp2" doesn't exist Before I tried recreating this group, I removed all of the LVs from it: [root@mom root]# df -hl Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 9.6G 1.3G 7.8G 15% / /dev/hda1 144M 17M 120M 12% /boot none 503M 0 503M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda2 6.4G 33M 6.0G 1% /usr/local /dev/hda6 1011M 273M 687M 29% /var /dev/volgrp1/lvol1 36G 32G 1.9G 95% /volumes/v01 /dev/volgrp1/lvol2 36G 29G 5.2G 85% /volumes/v02 /dev/volgrp1/lvol3 36G 25G 9.4G 73% /volumes/v03 /dev/volgrp2/lvol1 36G 31G 3.0G 92% /volumes/v10 /dev/volgrp2/lvol2 36G 18G 16G 51% /volumes/v11 /dev/volgrp2/lvol3 36G 915M 32G 3% /volumes/v12 /dev/volgrp3/lvol1 36G 2.5G 31G 8% /volumes/v20 /dev/volgrp3/lvol2 1.9G 208M 1.6G 12% /volumes/v21 [root@mom /]# umount /volumes/v10 [root@mom /]# umount /volumes/v11 [root@mom /]# umount /volumes/v12 [root@mom /]# lvremove /dev/volgrp2/lvol1 lvremove -- do you really want to remove "/dev/volgrp2/lvol1"? [y/n]: y lvremove -- doing automatic backup of volume group "volgrp2" lvremove -- logical volume "/dev/volgrp2/lvol1" successfully removed [root@mom /]# lvremove /dev/volgrp2/lvol2 lvremove -- do you really want to remove "/dev/volgrp2/lvol2"? [y/n]: y lvremove -- doing automatic backup of volume group "volgrp2" lvremove -- logical volume "/dev/volgrp2/lvol2" successfully removed [root@mom /]# lvremove /dev/volgrp2/lvol3 lvremove -- do you really want to remove "/dev/volgrp2/lvol3"? [y/n]: y lvremove -- doing automatic backup of volume group "volgrp2" lvremove -- logical volume "/dev/volgrp2/lvol3" successfully removed The new disk was been initialized: [root@mom root]# pvdisplay /dev/hdg pvdisplay -- "/dev/hdg" is a new physical volume of 114.50 GB And volgrp2 isn't active: [root@mom root]# vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG Name volgrp1 VG Access read/write VG Status available/resizable VG # 0 MAX LV 256 Cur LV 3 Open LV 3 MAX LV Size 255.99 GB Max PV 256 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 114.49 GB PE Size 4 MB Total PE 29310 Alloc PE / Size 27786 / 108.54 GB Free PE / Size 1524 / 5.95 GB VG UUID 5sIM7c-KUYL-O1fc-wjdX-A8fj-v7RG-Fj4ssE --- Volume group --- VG Name volgrp3 VG Access read/write VG Status available/resizable VG # 2 MAX LV 256 Cur LV 3 Open LV 3 MAX LV Size 255.99 GB Max PV 256 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 114.49 GB PE Size 4 MB Total PE 29310 Alloc PE / Size 18750 / 73.24 GB Free PE / Size 10560 / 41.25 GB VG UUID kIC7Td-UXGl-oJSx-AXRV-YzHE-DYFN-CBVCFb