Re: [linux-lvm] How to remove a vg manually?

["Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen sistina com>]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 12:28:40AM +0100, Ulrich Wiederhold wrote:
> Hey,
> first I wanna say, the resize of the reiserfs worked ok. Thanks.
> 
> I move my hole data from the old vg01 with that error
> "pvmove -- ERROR reading input physical volume "/dev/hdb1" (still 65536 bytes to read)"
> 
> to the new vg store at the moment. If it´s done I would like to remove
> the old vg01.
> How can I do this? Delete all files /etc/lvmconf/vg01* and change all
> Partition Types tp 83 instead of 8e?

vgchange -an vg01
for d in AllOfvg01sPVs; do dd if=/dev/zero of=$d bs=512 count=1; done
vgscan

You can change the partition type to an arbitray value optionally.

> 
> Anything else or another possibility?
> 
> Thanks
> Uli
> 
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