On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Zhang, Jonathan <zha...@evergreen.edu> wrote:
> The doc is recommend you do pvremove first and then run vgreduce.
> But you will get error something like "...you need to remove from volume 
> group first before delete the physical volume" (the message makes sense for 
> me. Need to removing from volume group first then removing the physical one)
>
> While ago I run "vgrreduce" first and then do "pvremove". It worked fine for 
> me.
>
      I myself always thought you would pvmove, then vgreduce, and
then pvremove. Unless you also had to resize the lv first


> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf 
> Of Eero Volotinen
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 12:45 PM
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> Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to remove LVM Physical Volume from Volume Group?
>
> 2014-06-24 22:31 GMT+03:00 Zhang, Jonathan <zha...@evergreen.edu>:
>
>> Fidsk -l (you will see sdd5, sdd6 and sdd7) Pvdisplay (to make sure
>> the Allocated PE on /dev/sdd7 Vgreduce vg_data /dev/sdd7 Pvremove
>> /dev/sdd7
>>
>> (before you run vgreduce you need to move all data from sdd7 to new
>> dic
>>
>>
> this is wrong way to do this. see the real docs at:
> https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Logical_Volume_Manager_Administration/disk_remove_ex.html
>
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