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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:20:08 -0700
From: malahal@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Removing a very old physical drive
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To: postmaster@bottlehall.eclipse.co.uk
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postmaster@bottlehall.eclipse.co.uk [postmaster@bottlehall.eclipse.co.uk] wrote:
>    Fixed it!
> 
>    Rummaging around with dmsetup, I discovered that lvm wasn't making the
>    pvmove lv active - it was suspended. It seems everything trying to run
>    against it was waiting for it to unsuspend. Using dmsetup to resume it
>    then meant that pvmove --abort worked and then a normal re-boot followed.

That is good to know!

Thanks, Malahal.