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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I get LVM2 off a drive?
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:08:38
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b05083017038efa50a@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How do I get LVM2 off a drive? by Mark Knecht
1 Answering self:
2
3 1) fdisk didn't seem to work
4 2) cfdisk did
5
6 - Mark
7
8 On 8/30/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
9 > I did an experiment with LVM2 to see how it worked, but I put it
10 > inside of partition 3. I then wanted to remove it and put it in
11 > partition 4 instead. (More like Neil's setup.) However, the system
12 > keeps finding the old vg1 volume group. I went so far as to remove all
13 > partitions, put on a new partition, make a new file system, then
14 > remove that filesystem and do my final ones with LVM2 in partition 4
15 > but the system still finds the old vg1 volume group and complains that
16 > sda3 is too small.
17 >
18 > I guess this is in the partition table? If so how do I completely
19 > remove the LVM2 data and set the table back to default?
20 >
21 > Thanks in advance,
22 > Mark
23 >
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