[plug] Removing a disk from LVM

[Ian Kent]

On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 16:42 +0800, Nigel Duff wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I am working(remotely) on a fileserver that holds a 5T LVM
> volume.  One of the disks is showing signs of corruption[1] and I
> am trying to remove it using pvmove/vgreduce.  However those
> commands return an "Incorrect metadata area header checksum"
> error. 
> 
> I have tried recovering the physical volume metadata[2] but all
> IDs are correct. The only other information I was able to find
> suggested doing an e2fsck. I have ran a number of these of the
> last few days all finishing saying the filesystem is 51.5%
> contiguous. I still can't use vgreduce[3]. 
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on what else I might try?

Maybe you could tell us about the structure of the volume group and it's
logical volumes so we have some idea of where the data is.

Ian