From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l5TB1IBQ019178 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:01:18 -0400 From: Turbo Fredriksson Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Forcibly remove broken disk from LV References: <87ps3fdqex.fsf@pumba.bayour.com> <4684DCA3.8020504@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:01:14 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4684DCA3.8020504@redhat.com> (Bryn M. Reeves's message of "Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:19:15 +0100") Message-ID: <87k5tndnyd.fsf@pumba.bayour.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: Turbo Fredriksson Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Quoting "Bryn M. Reeves" : > You can activate what's left of the volume group with: > vgchange --partial -ay Tried that but it didn't seem to be working: ----- s n i p ----- root@pegasos:~# vgchange --partial -ay movies Partial mode. Incomplete volume groups will be activated read-only. Couldn't find device with uuid 'nqj4V1-CxT3-At8I-Vc0h-E6iu-6jY3-a6z0A3'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'nqj4V1-CxT3-At8I-Vc0h-E6iu-6jY3-a6z0A3'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'nqj4V1-CxT3-At8I-Vc0h-E6iu-6jY3-a6z0A3'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'nqj4V1-CxT3-At8I-Vc0h-E6iu-6jY3-a6z0A3'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'nqj4V1-CxT3-At8I-Vc0h-E6iu-6jY3-a6z0A3'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'nqj4V1-CxT3-At8I-Vc0h-E6iu-6jY3-a6z0A3'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'nqj4V1-CxT3-At8I-Vc0h-E6iu-6jY3-a6z0A3'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'nqj4V1-CxT3-At8I-Vc0h-E6iu-6jY3-a6z0A3'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'nqj4V1-CxT3-At8I-Vc0h-E6iu-6jY3-a6z0A3'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'nqj4V1-CxT3-At8I-Vc0h-E6iu-6jY3-a6z0A3'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'nqj4V1-CxT3-At8I-Vc0h-E6iu-6jY3-a6z0A3'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'nqj4V1-CxT3-At8I-Vc0h-E6iu-6jY3-a6z0A3'. Device /dev/ioerror not found. device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument Couldn't find device with uuid 'nqj4V1-CxT3-At8I-Vc0h-E6iu-6jY3-a6z0A3'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'nqj4V1-CxT3-At8I-Vc0h-E6iu-6jY3-a6z0A3'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'nqj4V1-CxT3-At8I-Vc0h-E6iu-6jY3-a6z0A3'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'nqj4V1-CxT3-At8I-Vc0h-E6iu-6jY3-a6z0A3'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'nqj4V1-CxT3-At8I-Vc0h-E6iu-6jY3-a6z0A3'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'nqj4V1-CxT3-At8I-Vc0h-E6iu-6jY3-a6z0A3'. Device /dev/ioerror not found. device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument 1 logical volume(s) in volume group "movies" now active root@pegasos:~# vgdisplay Couldn't find device with uuid 'nqj4V1-CxT3-At8I-Vc0h-E6iu-6jY3-a6z0A3'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group movies. Couldn't find device with uuid 'nqj4V1-CxT3-At8I-Vc0h-E6iu-6jY3-a6z0A3'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group movies. Couldn't find device with uuid 'nqj4V1-CxT3-At8I-Vc0h-E6iu-6jY3-a6z0A3'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group movies. Couldn't find device with uuid 'nqj4V1-CxT3-At8I-Vc0h-E6iu-6jY3-a6z0A3'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group movies. Couldn't find device with uuid 'nqj4V1-CxT3-At8I-Vc0h-E6iu-6jY3-a6z0A3'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group movies. Couldn't find device with uuid 'nqj4V1-CxT3-At8I-Vc0h-E6iu-6jY3-a6z0A3'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group movies. Volume group "movies" not found ----- s n i p ----- I was supposed to do this after physically removing/disconnecting the broken disk, right? Also, i noticed that I had the /dev/mapper/movies-pvmove0 block device. How do i cancel the pvmove I initiated a couple of days ago (tried to move hdb to availible space on VG - this availible space is/was on the - now - broken disk)? The command 'pvmove --abort' won't work - it also hangs...