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dwidmann

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From: Gordonsville, Virginia, US

Registered: 2009-05-27

Posts: 60

drive in lvm set pre-fail

Need to get everything off and _soon_.  According to S.M.A.R.T. anyhow.

How to go about removing the bad drive (/dev/sdb) from the volume group?
Have two physical volumes (/dev/sda4 and /dev/sdb) in a volume group.
Have one logical volume taking up the entire 2.79TiB space.
I had originally only had it only on /dev/sda4, then I did pvcreate on sdb and added it to the volume group, resized the logical volume, then resized the partition. I rebooted not long after for a kernel update (relatively new install on new system, but old(er) drives). Upon this reboot I saw a lovely SMART error. telling me that the drive was failing.
Physically speaking, all of the files should still be physically be on /dev/sda4 right?
Umm, I can still mount everything.
I'd like to just remove the bad drive from the group and add a new drive later because that should be easier than backing up everything, taking out the bad drive, redoing sda4, and such.

Anyhow, please advise.

Last edited by dwidmann (2010-11-19 09:42:19)

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