[linux-lvm] cannot create a volume group named the same as one already removed

Tom Georgoulias tom.georgoulias at motorola.com
Thu Feb 6 14:19:02 UTC 2003


Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote:
> Your mail doesn't show clearly, if vgremove was run prior to pvcreate.

I believe I did them out of order, which got me into this mess. :(

> The directory in /dev/ still exists so run:
> 
> rm -r /dev/volgrp2
> 
> and retry.

Thank you, that solved the problem.

Tom





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