From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 09:05:22 +0200 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] What have I done!? Message-ID: <20011005090522.A1245@sistina.com> References: <009401c14cc3$c63106c0$836788cf@industry> <009501c14cc7$2f5cd360$836788cf@industry> <20011004113309.E31061@turbolinux.com> <30980000.1002218241@dizzy> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <30980000.1002218241@dizzy>; from lembark@wrkhors.com on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 12:57:21PM -0500 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: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 12:57:21PM -0500, Steven Lembark wrote: > > > -- Andreas Dilger > > >> Is there a way that I can blow the whole thing away and start over? I > >> think I've screwed things up too badly to try to resurrect them. I'd > >> really like to blow it all away and start over and see if this stuff > >> happens again, but again I can't use the lv* tools to remove the > >> configurations because of the errors I mention in my initial post so I > >> need a manual way to blow away the entire LVM configuration and start > >> from scratch again. > > > > "pvcreate -ff" I think > > If you really want to wipe things clean: > > (1) vgexport /dev/vgname; # avoids collisions w/ stale config info. > (2) for disk in your disks here; do pvcreate -ff $disk; done; > > The export isn't strictly necessar: rm -rf and a vgscan should do the > same basic thing with a few nastygrams added in. Personally, I get > enough nastygrams to prefer avoiding a few more :-) I'm curious: which ones are thouse? > > > -- > Steven Lembark 2930 W. Palmer > Workhorse Computing Chicago, IL 60647 > +1 800 762 1582 > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-