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LVM: Removing a 'Zombie' (Unavailable) VG

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Mar 15, 202613497 views
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Problem

I have an LVM related problem. We have a server that 'learned' about a foreign volume group through a hard drive that was briefly attached. Now, with that hard drive gone again, all LVM utilities complain about lots of IO errors (read failed) for this missing volume group. As you can see from the o…

Error Output

root@coruscant:~# vgs
/dev/mapper/vg_old-lv1: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 2147418112: Input/output error
/dev/mapper/vg_old-lv2: read failed after…

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Fix for: LVM: Removing a 'Zombie' (Unavailable) VG

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The solution for removing ghost LVM-volumes is 'dmsetup'. Do something like: After that your 'vgs'-command does not display the read errors.

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