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From: "Beginner" <dermot@sciencephoto.com>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LVM - can't find device
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 14:53:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4656F84E.23109.6358A9B@dermot.sciencephoto.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2A7403A6-3B63-48CF-9EE9-B291C1A0065E@bulbous.org>

In the end I moved the folders out of /etc/lvm and rpm -F lvms....rpm 
which I think re-installed a fresh version. 

It's a bit of a hack and I could have a kernel panic when I reboot. 
Finger's crossed!
Dp.

On 25 May 2007 at 16:44, Freddie wrote:

> I think the trick was vgreduce --removemissing
> 
> 
> On May 25, 2007, at 10:09 , Dermot Paikkos wrote:
> 
> > Hi Admin,
> >
> > I had a test LVM volume that I used to get familiar with the
> > concepts. I am now ready to create the volumes proper and so re-
> > created the RAID containers from scratch. I didn't destroy the old
> > volumes and now I am getting lots of errors when I do
> > {pv,vg,lv}display.
> >
> > Is there some way I can remove all the old configuration? I have
> > tried {lv,pv,vg}remove and I keep getting these type of errors:
> >
> >   Couldn't find device with uuid 'wL5A4h-HlSu-Pabf-DulI-is2f-R8br-
> > ZjhjMV'.
> >   Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group Archive.
> >   Couldn't find device with uuid 'wL5A4h-HlSu-Pabf-DulI-is2f-R8br-
> > ZjhjMV'.
> >   Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group Archive.
> >   Volume group "Archive" not found
> >
> >
> > Contents of /etc/lvm:
> >
> > ./.cache
> > ./archive
> > ./archive/Archive_00000.vg
> > ./backup
> > ./backup/Archive
> > ./lvm.conf
> >
> > Can anyone offer some advice?
> > Thanx,
> > Dp.
> >
> >
> >
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      reply	other threads:[~2007-05-25 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-25  7:09 LVM - can't find device Dermot Paikkos
2007-05-25 13:44 ` Freddie
2007-05-25 13:53   ` Beginner [this message]

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