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From: Gaylord Holder <gholder@cs.drexel.edu>
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Subject: [linux-lvm] How to force lvm2 to remove volume group?
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I created a volume group on a disk which was hot removed.

How can remove the volume group without replacing the drive or rebooting
my machine?

I've tried vgreduce --removemissing without any luck.

Thanks,
-Gaylord