If you need to move data out from sdd7 to new location. You need to pvmove /dev/new_disc first Then vgreduce and pvremove However, before do pvmove you need pvcreate /dev/new_disc vgextend vg_data/new_disc pvmove /dev/new_disc -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Mauricio Tavares Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 1:00 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to remove LVM Physical Volume from Volume Group? On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Zhang, Jonathan <zhangj at 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-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Eero Volotinen > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 12:45 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to remove LVM Physical Volume from Volume Group? > > 2014-06-24 22:31 GMT+03:00 Zhang, Jonathan <zhangj at 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 > > -- > Eero > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos