From: Stefan Radovanovici <stefan@nektulos.de>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] pvremove won't work
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:48:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A2F4916.6090604@nektulos.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090610053839.GB18433@maude.comedia.it>
On 6/10/2009 7:38 AM, Luca Berra wrote:
>> I think I somehow messed up while trying to get rid of /dev/sda4. I
>> used a GUI for this not the CLI, first I tried to move the extents to
>> other PVs (which I think is that pvmove does) and then to actually
>> remove it from the group (which is probably what vgreduce does). If I
>> am not mistaken, the first operation gave an error even though it
>> appeared to have worked somehow at the time.
>>
> it seems to be some leftover from the pvmove operation, unfortunately i
> have no idea if some data was not actually moved correctly.
> did you record the error message the pvmove operation reported?
No, unfortunately not, it was just a popup in that GUI. The LVM is mounted now, with only the 2 remaining partitions as PVs, and so far the data seems to be in order so maybe pvmove worked. I guess I will live it at that and when the time comes, I will just remove the failing disk from the system.
Regards,
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-10 5:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-09 6:39 [linux-lvm] pvremove won't work Stefan Radovanovici
2009-06-09 6:54 ` Luca Berra
2009-06-09 7:04 ` Stefan Radovanovici
2009-06-09 9:46 ` Bryn M. Reeves
2009-06-09 10:25 ` Stefan Radovanovici
2009-06-10 5:38 ` Luca Berra
2009-06-10 5:48 ` Stefan Radovanovici [this message]
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