From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (mimecast03.extmail.prod.ext.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.55.19]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E762A205F387 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2020 08:51:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from us-smtp-1.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com [207.211.31.120]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6DF0A811E79 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2020 08:51:29 +0000 (UTC) From: Annamalai Gurusami References: <87362fg62i.fsf@oracle.com> <24457.45991.672260.342062@quad.stoffel.home> Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2020 14:19:15 +0530 In-Reply-To: <24457.45991.672260.342062@quad.stoffel.home> (John Stoffel's message of "Fri, 16 Oct 2020 10:52:23 -0400") Message-ID: <87wnz2akqc.fsf@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Identifying Unused VG 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: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: John Stoffel Cc: LVM general discussion and development "John Stoffel" writes: > Looking at your 'lsblk' output, I suspect you can remove drive sda, > the Seagate. So I'd probably try to shutdown cleanly, then remove > that drive and boot up again. Finally I was able to spend sometime doing this. And you are correct. I shutdown the computer and removed the Seagate HDD and started the computer. Everything went smooth. Thanks for helping me. Rgds, anna