From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3E42C2F0.8000407@motorola.com> From: Tom Georgoulias MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] cannot create a volume group named the same as one already removed References: <3E4295C1.9010802@motorola.com> <20030206193834.A23955@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: Date: Thu Feb 6 14:19:02 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > Your mail doesn't show clearly, if vgremove was run prior to pvcreate. I believe I did them out of order, which got me into this mess. :( > The directory in /dev/ still exists so run: > > rm -r /dev/volgrp2 > > and retry. Thank you, that solved the problem. Tom