[plug] Removing a disk from LVM

Ian Kent raven at themaw.net
Sat May 5 00:40:49 WST 2007


On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 00:20 +0800, Nigel Duff wrote:
> On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 12:01:23AM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> 
> > I asked Hienz Mauelshagen and he suggested using the commands I gave in
> > the mail below to see if they make the message go away. After looking at
> > the output from the display commands you gave he said that your LV is as
> > big as your VG so you can't vgreduce it.  And the errors can be
> > explained by trying to shrink the LV without first shrinking the
> > filesystem (ha, I did that a while back myself).
> 
> I'll try that next. I have to e2fsck the volume *again* and it
> takes forever so i'll leave it over night.

Yes, resize requires and fsck first.

Ian





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