I have a vm with 2 disk and 2 VG, on of the disk is a PV (no partition). OS is CentOS 7.
Now the disk is unavailable. The PVS displays:
# pvs
WARNING: Device for PV L9Anor-qlzF-mTT7-Rxx0-Ovig-hMQI-OkupZL not found or rejected by a filter.
WARNING: Device for PV L9Anor-qlzF-mTT7-Rxx0-Ovig-hMQI-OkupZL not found or rejected by a filter.
WARNING: Device for PV L9Anor-qlzF-mTT7-Rxx0-Ovig-hMQI-OkupZL not found or rejected by a filter.
Couldn't find device with uuid L9Anor-qlzF-mTT7-Rxx0-Ovig-hMQI-OkupZL.
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
...
[unknown] vgbackup lvm2 a-m <800,00g <30,00g
--- Volume group ---
VG Name vgbackup
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 0
Metadata Sequence No 5
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 1
Open LV 0
Max PV 0
Cur PV 1
Act PV 0
VG Size <800,00 GiB
PE Size 4,00 MiB
Total PE 204799
Alloc PE / Size 197120 / 770,00 GiB
Free PE / Size 7679 / <30,00 GiB
VG UUID d2QWd0-eg28-RpRY-RX0h-JV7A-dpJH-jRF71x
The VG consist of only this disk, no other pv in this vg.
Tried to remove pv:
vgremove --force vgbackup
WARNING: Device for PV L9Anor-qlzF-mTT7-Rxx0-Ovig-hMQI-OkupZL not found or rejected by a filter.
Couldn't find device with uuid L9Anor-qlzF-mTT7-Rxx0-Ovig-hMQI-OkupZL.
Aborting vg_write: No metadata areas to write to!
Tried to add a loop device to write metadata:
# losetup -l
NAME SIZELIMIT OFFSET AUTOCLEAR RO BACK-FILE
/dev/loop0 0 0 0 0 /tmp/tmp.raw
# vgextend vgbackup /dev/loop0
WARNING: Device for PV L9Anor-qlzF-mTT7-Rxx0-Ovig-hMQI-OkupZL not found or rejected by a filter.
WARNING: Device for PV L9Anor-qlzF-mTT7-Rxx0-Ovig-hMQI-OkupZL not found or rejected by a filter.
Couldn't find device with uuid L9Anor-qlzF-mTT7-Rxx0-Ovig-hMQI-OkupZL.
WARNING: Device for PV L9Anor-qlzF-mTT7-Rxx0-Ovig-hMQI-OkupZL not found or rejected by a filter.
Segmentation fault
The /dev/loop0 PV was created but not attached to vgbackup:
# pvs
WARNING: Device for PV L9Anor-qlzF-mTT7-Rxx0-Ovig-hMQI-OkupZL not found or rejected by a filter.
WARNING: Device for PV L9Anor-qlzF-mTT7-Rxx0-Ovig-hMQI-OkupZL not found or rejected by a filter.
WARNING: Device for PV L9Anor-qlzF-mTT7-Rxx0-Ovig-hMQI-OkupZL not found or rejected by a filter.
Couldn't find device with uuid L9Anor-qlzF-mTT7-Rxx0-Ovig-hMQI-OkupZL.
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/loop0 lvm2 --- 100,00m 100,00m
/dev/sda2 rootvg lvm2 a-- 58,80g 4,00m
[unknown] vgbackup lvm2 a-m <800,00g <30,00g
What to do now?
How can I remove vgbackup from the lvm config?
Reboot is not an option now.
Thank you for your help!