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Subject: [linux-lvm] Forcibly remove broken disk from LV
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I have a disk that only gives SCSI errors etc which
I want to remove from the VG. But vgreduce only hangs
and so does pvremove...

If I physically remove the disk, the vg/pv/lv etc isn't
accessible so the vgreduce won't work (claims that it
can't find any PV's etc).

So how do I remove the disk?