[linux-lvm] pvscan problem

Heinz J . Mauelshagen mauelshagen at sistina.com
Mon Sep 9 06:10:27 UTC 2002


There's no pvremove so far. LVM2 will have one later though.

Just "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/WhateverPV count=1 bs=1k" to all the PVs
you want to get rid of.

If you can stand to see them pvscan'ed as new PVs,
run "pvcreate -ff /dev/WhateverPV" instead.

On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 05:08:24PM +0200, NagyZ wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> after i reinstalled my system, pvscan still shows old hdd's as inactive 
> PVs.. how can i remove that? the hdds have been completely repartitioned, 
> so i dont know why is that..
> is there any way to "unmark" a partition which have been marked with 
> pvcreate?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> NagyZ
>  
> 
> 
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