[linux-lvm] Activation problem with vgremove

[linux-lvm] Activation problem with vgremove

[Marcus Franke]

Hello all,

I am doing a reconfiguration of one of my servers and am facing
the following problem:

I have one disk using the lvm.

On this disk there is one volumegroup which had two logical
volumes.

I unmounted those volumes and tried to lvremove them. The
first one went down the river without a problem. The second
one I was not able to lvremove it, after a reboot of the
machine, I could remove the logical volume.

Now, I have the problem I want to delete the volume group
too, but vgremove fails like the logical volume. Somewhere
it is marked as active.

[root@master]/mnt# vgremove -v Volume01
vgremove -- locking logical volume manager
vgremove -- checking volume group name "Volume01"
vgremove -- checking volume group "Volume01" activity
vgremove -- ERROR: can't remove active volume group "Volume01"

System is RHEL3 with kernel:
2.4.21-37.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Sep 7 13:28:55 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386
GNU/Linux

Where can I remove the active flag for the volume group? As I do not
want to reboot the machine again as the next timeframe for reboot will
be
not before tomorrow morning.


Regards,
Marcus

AW: [linux-lvm] Activation problem with vgremove

[Marcus Franke]

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Hello,
 
Ok, had my timeframe, rebooted the server but still the volumegroup
is marked as active. I cannot remove it :(
 
How can this be and how can I change this? I need to remove the lvm
from the drive. And I want it to happen the clean way.
 
Not just fdisking it from the drive and let the informations of the lvm
remain somewhere in the config..
 
 
Marcus

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Von: linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com im Auftrag von Marcus Franke
Gesendet: Fr 25.11.2005 13:49
An: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Betreff: [linux-lvm] Activation problem with vgremove



Hello all,

I am doing a reconfiguration of one of my servers and am facing
the following problem:

I have one disk using the lvm.

On this disk there is one volumegroup which had two logical
volumes.

I unmounted those volumes and tried to lvremove them. The
first one went down the river without a problem. The second
one I was not able to lvremove it, after a reboot of the
machine, I could remove the logical volume.

Now, I have the problem I want to delete the volume group
too, but vgremove fails like the logical volume. Somewhere
it is marked as active.

[root@master]/mnt# vgremove -v Volume01
vgremove -- locking logical volume manager
vgremove -- checking volume group name "Volume01"
vgremove -- checking volume group "Volume01" activity
vgremove -- ERROR: can't remove active volume group "Volume01"

System is RHEL3 with kernel:
2.4.21-37.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Sep 7 13:28:55 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386
GNU/Linux

Where can I remove the active flag for the volume group? As I do not
want to reboot the machine again as the next timeframe for reboot will
be
not before tomorrow morning.


Regards,
Marcus

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Re: AW: [linux-lvm] Activation problem with vgremove

[Matthias Meyer]

Am Samstag 26 November 2005 09:13 schrieb Marcus Franke:
> Hello,
>
> Ok, had my timeframe, rebooted the server but still the volumegroup
> is marked as active. I cannot remove it :(
>
> How can this be and how can I change this? I need to remove the lvm
> from the drive. And I want it to happen the clean way.
>
> Not just fdisking it from the drive and let the informations of the lvm
> remain somewhere in the config..
>
>
> Marcus
Did you try "vgchange -an <volumegroup>"?
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AW: AW: [linux-lvm] Activation problem with vgremove

[Marcus Franke]

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Ahh, this was the missing information

Thanks!

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Von: linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com im Auftrag von Matthias Meyer
Gesendet: Sa 26.11.2005 11:51
An: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Betreff: Re: AW: [linux-lvm] Activation problem with vgremove
 
Am Samstag 26 November 2005 09:13 schrieb Marcus Franke:
> Hello,
>
> Ok, had my timeframe, rebooted the server but still the volumegroup
> is marked as active. I cannot remove it :(
>
> How can this be and how can I change this? I need to remove the lvm
> from the drive. And I want it to happen the clean way.
>
> Not just fdisking it from the drive and let the informations of the lvm
> remain somewhere in the config..
>
>
> Marcus
Did you try "vgchange -an <volumegroup>"?
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