<div dir="ltr">You need to deactivate all active LVs before trying to deactivate the VG.<br><br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">lvchange -an /dev/vgelg/lvelg</span><br><br>- Noam<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2010/4/18 Tom Rosenfeld <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trosen@bezeqint.net">trosen@bezeqint.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">Hi Guys,<br><br>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<br>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.<br>
<br>I am looking for a way to force the volume closed, but have not had any luck.<br>See the output below.<br><br>Thanks,<br>-tom<br><br><br><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"># vgchange -an vgelg</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Can't deactivate volume group "vgelg" with 1 open logical volume(s)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"># ls -l /dev/vgelg/lvelg</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">ls: /dev/vgelg/lvelg: No such file or directory</span><br>
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"># vgdisplay -v vgelg</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Using volume group(s) on command line</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Finding volume group "vgelg"</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> --- Volume group ---</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> VG Name vgelg</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> System ID </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Format lvm2</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Metadata Areas 4</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Metadata Sequence No 7</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> VG Access read/write</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> VG Status resizable</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> MAX LV 0</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Cur LV 1</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Open LV 1</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Max PV 0</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Cur PV 4</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Act PV 4</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> VG Size 1.17 TB</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> PE Size 4.00 MB</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Total PE 307196</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Alloc PE / Size 281600 / 1.07 TB</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Free PE / Size 25596 / 99.98 GB</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> VG UUID GPsU3q-4Kv3-oRUk-rgLc-MKcw-eeL9-dA0z6L</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> --- Logical volume ---</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> LV Name /dev/vgelg/lvelg</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> VG Name vgelg</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> LV UUID fjgl50-jLY1-72NL-VH9z-L1hX-JUo8-fMtJAy</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> LV Write Access read/write</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> LV Status available</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> # open 1</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> LV Size 1.07 TB</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Current LE 281600</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Segments 1</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Allocation inherit</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Read ahead sectors 32768</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Block device 253:4</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> --- Physical volumes ---</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> PV Name /dev/sdk4 </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> PV UUID zm8X2J-aT8Q-CV9u-YnyE-cghe-oQlH-pefMJv</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> PV Status allocatable</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Total PE / Free PE 76799 / 6399</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> PV Name /dev/sdk3 </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> PV UUID P7gDOr-Z9d7-tBJz-Jq84-j3nj-c0gL-5I1RRT</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> PV Status allocatable</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Total PE / Free PE 76799 / 6399</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> PV Name /dev/sdk2 </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> PV UUID eOqwcK-2SJI-xuIT-daBW-sLfZ-Tu18-eTZBgl</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> PV Status allocatable</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Total PE / Free PE 76799 / 6399</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> PV Name /dev/sdk1 </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> PV UUID nDlr5E-4bCh-sAOh-NjDe-fYn2-73Kd-lnqLxr</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> PV Status allocatable</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Total PE / Free PE 76799 / 6399</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"># lvdisplay /dev/vgelg/lvelg -v</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Using logical volume(s) on command line</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> --- Logical volume ---</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> LV Name /dev/vgelg/lvelg</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> VG Name vgelg</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> LV UUID fjgl50-jLY1-72NL-VH9z-L1hX-JUo8-fMtJAy</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> LV Write Access read/write</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> LV Status available</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> # open 1</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> LV Size 1.07 TB</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Current LE 281600</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Segments 1</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Allocation inherit</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Read ahead sectors 32768</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Block device 253:4</span><br>
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