Lvm – Remove Physical Volume from Volume Group

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How do you remove a PV from a VG?

Here's what I've tried:

# vgreduce vg_iscsi /dev/sdb1
Physical volume "/dev/sdb1" still in use

# lvs
LV         VG       Attr       LSize   Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
  root       centos   -wi-ao----   6.67g                                                    
  swap       centos   -wi-ao---- 820.00m                                                    
  lvm02      vg2      -wi-a----- 800.00m                                                    
  lv_iscsi_1 vg_iscsi -wi-ao----  52.00m

Then

# lvremove -f vg_iscsi/lv_iscsi_1
Logical volume vg_iscsi/lv_iscsi_1 in use.

Using fuser

# fuser -kuc /dev/vg_iscsi/lv_iscsi_1
/dev/dm-3:            1558(root)

I tried to kill -9 this but the process seemed to have disappeared by the time I issued the kill signal.

However, now I get this:

# vgreduce vg_iscsi /dev/sdb1
Can't remove final physical volume "/dev/sdb1" from volume group "vg_iscsi"

Any ideas?

Best Answer

The vgreduce command is correct, but you can't remove a physical volume from the volume group until it's empty. That is what the error message that you received means.

As the man page states:

       To move all Physical Extents that are used by simple Logical Volumes on
       /dev/sdb1 to free Physical Extents elsewhere in the Volume Group use:

       pvmove /dev/sdb1

Once the PV is empty, you can then repeat the vgreduce command to remove it.

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