Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Eray Aslan <eray.aslan@×××××××.tr>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] recover from disk crash lvm2 group
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:13:11
Message-Id: 48945D5C.1000703@caf.com.tr
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] recover from disk crash lvm2 group by Albert Hopkins
1 On 02.08.2008 15:02, Albert Hopkins wrote:
2 > On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 12:49 +0300, Eray Aslan wrote:
3 [...]
4 >> One of the disks in a 3-disk lvm2 group crashed. I would like to
5 >> continue with the remaining 2 disks. How to remove the non-functioning
6 >> disk from the group and re-create the volume with 2 disks? I have backups.
7 [...]
8 > The lvm(8) man page lists the --partial flag. A quick Google search
9 > reveals:
10 >
11 > vgchange -ay --partial
12
13 Grr, it does indeed. For the archives, also had to use vgreduce with
14 --removemissing flag.
15
16 Sorry and thank you for the quick response.
17
18 Eray