[linux-lvm] how to remove PV from a VG?

[Adrien Farkas]

Piete Brooks (Piete.Brooks at cl.cam.ac.uk) wrote :

> >> How do I really, physically remove the devices from the PV list?
> > Set the partition type identifier to something different than 0xfe.
> 
> What if the disks were to not have a `partition type', e.g. /dev/sdb or
> /dev/md33 ?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb count=8 bs=1024 does the trick

thanks to all who responded (and subsequently helped).

regards,

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