Hi,

I think I did a mistake.

Let's say I have 4 partitions :
/dev/hda1
/dev/hdb1
/dev/hdc1
/dev/hdd1
(none are for boot nor for the system files)
I added all to my volume group the 4 partitions (after setting them as physical volumes)
Yesterday I shrinked the filesystem so it is less than the size of hda1. All worked perfectly.
This morning I did pvremove /dev/hdd1 which told me to start pvremove -ff /dev/hdd1. I did that, and now lvm says me it doesn't find all pv's for my volume group and the volume group is not found ...

After thinking, I think what I forgot is to remove /dev/hdd1 from the volume group before doing the pvremove ...

Is there a way to fix this ?

Thanks a lot ...

OK, I am not going to be of much help right now, as I am at work and am currently trapped on a WiNdOwS machine, but I recall doing the same thing about five years ago. I did manage to recover from this error by manually editing/recreating the appropriate, text file, entries in the /etc directory.

I cannot recall, off the top of my head, where these files live, probably some LVM-ish sounding subdirectory, and these text files *can* be edited/created to bring your PVs back.

PS: In general, if some LVM2 command requires you to force the command, you probably don't want to do it.

In fact, I found the answer myself, which was really easy as 1-2-3 !

vgreduce myvolumegroup --removemissing

That did the trick, everything back to normal !

I love LVM ...