From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx13.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.18]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r0OASSkP025882 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 05:28:29 -0500 Received: from mailrelay1.lrz-muenchen.de (mailrelay1.lrz-muenchen.de [129.187.254.106]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r0OASQ60007974 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 05:28:26 -0500 Received: from mailout.lrz.de ([10.156.6.65] [10.156.6.65]) by mailrelay1.lrz-muenchen.de with ESMTP for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:28:20 +0100 Received: from [192.168.109.72] (zzz-dyn-nat-180.lnt.ei.tum.de [129.187.109.180]) by postout4.mail.lrz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35465139 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:28:20 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <51010CC3.7050908@tum.de> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:28:19 +0100 From: Joschi Brauchle MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <51004E73.9080902@tum.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary="------------ms080804090003050901060207" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] vgremove fails to remove empty VG (v2.02.98) Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: To: linux-lvm@redhat.com This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms080804090003050901060207 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 01/24/2013 06:50 AM, mohammad azimi wrote: > Did you used vgreduce to release free the disk? Well, no. Actually, I am not performing those commands manually. It is the openSUSE 12.3 installer (YaST2), that performs a sequence of=20 commands during installation. It is told to create a new VG on an=20 existing LVM partition. Hence, it first removes all LVs in the existing=20 VG, then tries to remove the existing, empty VG using 'vgremove system'. I tried to strip the series of commands from the YaST2 logs: ------------- "/sbin/lvremove -f -A n '/dev/system/var_log'" "/sbin/lvremove -f -A n '/dev/system/var'" "/sbin/lvremove -f -A n '/dev/system/usr'" "/sbin/lvremove -f -A n '/dev/system/tmp'" "/sbin/lvremove -f -A n '/dev/system/slash'" "/sbin/lvremove -f -A n '/dev/system/nobackup'" "/sbin/vgremove 'system'" ------------- =3D> Fails with exit code 5 openSUSE 12.3 is using LVM version: 2.02.98(2) (2012-10-15) Library version: 1.02.77 (2012-10-15) Driver version: 4.23.0 Note that the EXACTLY same sequence of commands works OK for openSUSE=20 12.2 using LVM version: 2.02.84(2) (2011-02-09) Library version: 1.02.63 (2011-02-09) Driver version: 4.22.0 > On Jan 24, 2013 8:02 AM, "Joschi Brauchle" > wrote: > > Hello, > > I get the following error with lvm2.02.98: > ----------- > #/sbin/vgdisplay --units k -v 'system' > > --- Volume group --- > VG Name system > System ID > Format lvm2 > Metadata Areas 1 > Metadata Sequence No 13 > VG Access read/write > VG Status resizable > MAX LV 0 > Cur LV 0 > Open LV 0 > Max PV 0 > Cur PV 1 > Act PV 1 > VG Size 104669184.00 KiB > PE Size 4096.00 KiB > Total PE 25554 > Alloc PE / Size 0 / 0 KiB > Free PE / Size 25554 / 104669184.00 KiB > VG UUID Qs0uaZ-L88n-tC7T-fZQj-sgJY-__2yRX-Dlt2Cr > > --- Physical volumes --- > PV Name /dev/sda3 > PV UUID wzGjXi-F2lT-d2d4-l5a6-EmfM-__W838-YxaFIh > PV Status allocatable > Total PE / Free PE 25554 / 25554 > ----------- > > VG system is empty, but still: > ----------- > # /sbin/vgremove 'system' > ----------- > failes with status code 5, which means 'can't remove volume group > containing logical volumes' (from man page). > > Looks like a bug in vgremove? > > Best regards, > J Brauchle > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > --=20 Dipl.-Ing. Joschi Brauchle, M.S. 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