can't close logical volume

[Noam Meltzer]

You need to deactivate all active LVs before trying to deactivate the VG.

lvchange -an /dev/vgelg/lvelg

- Noam

2010/4/18 Tom Rosenfeld <trosen at bezeqint.net>

> Hi Guys,
>
> I am having troupe with an LVM volume. I umounted a disk and moved it to a
> new system. There I did pvscan and vgscan --mknodes
> However I can do no further operations on the volume since LVM thinks it is
> still open. It did not even create the block devise even though lvdisplay
> show it exists.
>
> I am looking for a way to force the volume closed, but have not had any
> luck.
> See the output below.
>
> Thanks,
> -tom
>
>
>
>
> # vgchange -an vgelg
>   Can't deactivate volume group "vgelg" with 1 open logical volume(s)
> # ls -l /dev/vgelg/lvelg
> ls: /dev/vgelg/lvelg: No such file or directory
>
> # vgdisplay  -v vgelg
>     Using volume group(s) on command line
>     Finding volume group "vgelg"
>   --- Volume group ---
>   VG Name               vgelg
>   System ID
>   Format                lvm2
>   Metadata Areas        4
>   Metadata Sequence No  7
>   VG Access             read/write
>   VG Status             resizable
>   MAX LV                0
>   Cur LV                1
>   Open LV               1
>   Max PV                0
>   Cur PV                4
>   Act PV                4
>   VG Size               1.17 TB
>   PE Size               4.00 MB
>   Total PE              307196
>   Alloc PE / Size       281600 / 1.07 TB
>   Free  PE / Size       25596 / 99.98 GB
>   VG UUID               GPsU3q-4Kv3-oRUk-rgLc-MKcw-eeL9-dA0z6L
>
>   --- Logical volume ---
>   LV Name                /dev/vgelg/lvelg
>   VG Name                vgelg
>   LV UUID                fjgl50-jLY1-72NL-VH9z-L1hX-JUo8-fMtJAy
>   LV Write Access        read/write
>   LV Status              available
>   # open                 1
>   LV Size                1.07 TB
>   Current LE             281600
>   Segments               1
>   Allocation             inherit
>   Read ahead sectors     32768
>   Block device           253:4
>
>   --- Physical volumes ---
>   PV Name               /dev/sdk4
>   PV UUID               zm8X2J-aT8Q-CV9u-YnyE-cghe-oQlH-pefMJv
>   PV Status             allocatable
>   Total PE / Free PE    76799 / 6399
>
>   PV Name               /dev/sdk3
>   PV UUID               P7gDOr-Z9d7-tBJz-Jq84-j3nj-c0gL-5I1RRT
>   PV Status             allocatable
>   Total PE / Free PE    76799 / 6399
>
>   PV Name               /dev/sdk2
>   PV UUID               eOqwcK-2SJI-xuIT-daBW-sLfZ-Tu18-eTZBgl
>   PV Status             allocatable
>   Total PE / Free PE    76799 / 6399
>
>   PV Name               /dev/sdk1
>   PV UUID               nDlr5E-4bCh-sAOh-NjDe-fYn2-73Kd-lnqLxr
>   PV Status             allocatable
>   Total PE / Free PE    76799 / 6399
>
>
> # lvdisplay /dev/vgelg/lvelg -v
>     Using logical volume(s) on command line
>   --- Logical volume ---
>   LV Name                /dev/vgelg/lvelg
>   VG Name                vgelg
>   LV UUID                fjgl50-jLY1-72NL-VH9z-L1hX-JUo8-fMtJAy
>   LV Write Access        read/write
>   LV Status              available
>   # open                 1
>   LV Size                1.07 TB
>   Current LE             281600
>   Segments               1
>   Allocation             inherit
>   Read ahead sectors     32768
>   Block device           253:4
>
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