[linux-lvm] vgreduce fails
Spam
spam at tnonline.net
Fri Nov 7 04:54:02 UTC 2003
Yes I tried that way too. I had tried restarting the system with no
luck too. But when I changed to LVM2 it worked fine without any
problems. I have no idea what was wrong. I tried to move several
different disks and all gave the same error with LVM1.
> Have you tried removing the one free PV rather than using "-a" ?
> Have you run vgck to check volume group consistency ?
> Does the machine have an extraordinary long uptime ?
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 04:40:44AM +0100, Spam wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to reduce a physical volume from my VG "Server" but
>> when I get to the step "vgreduce" it fails with this error:
>>
>> vgreduce -- ERROR "parameter error" reducing volume group
>> "Server" by physical volume
>> "/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1" in kernel
>>
>> There is a logfile and debug output on http://tnonline.net/lvm.txt
>> (also attached as lvm.zip).
>>
>> I am using Gentoo Linux, but tried with vanilla kernel 2.4.22 and
>> lvm tools 1.0.7.
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