[linux-lvm] Bad Disk

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-- Christopher Blunck <cblunck2000 at yahoo.com> on 08/13/01 19:34:05 -0700

> But it doesn't kill / contaminate the rest of the
> volume group?  i didn't enable striping so I'm
> assuming it'll leave the other data alone.
> 
> Would you have to issue any administrative commands
> via the vg or lv commands to reduce the vg size?

use:

    vexport volgroupname;
    vgimport volgroupname pvnamethatlives;

Whatever's left on the PV(s) that survived will be
recovered.  Regardless of "striping" you may have
LV's that span the volumes (e.g., via lvextending
them across the PV's).  These will be lost either
way.

sl