So, I had disk failure and was moving LVs from the failing disk, to the new PVs. Some LVs were moved successfully, some not. Afterwards I ended up with following state: - two locked LVs - volume group with missing PV
When I try to remove PV, I get:
vgreduce --removemissing --force vg3
Couldn't find device with uuid RQr0HS-17ts-1k6Y-Xnex-IZwi-Y2kM-vCc5mP.
Removing partial LV var.
Can't remove locked LV var
lvremove -fff vg3/var
Couldn't find device with uuid RQr0HS-17ts-1k6Y-Xnex-IZwi-Y2kM-vCc5mP.
Can't remove locked LV var
pvmove --abort
Couldn't find device with uuid RQr0HS-17ts-1k6Y-Xnex-IZwi-Y2kM-vCc5mP.
Cannot change VG vg3 while PVs are missing.
Consider vgreduce --removemissing.
Skipping volume group vg3
I also tried executing vcfgbackup and then restore after editing the locks out, but to no avail:
vgcfgrestore --force vg3
Couldn't find device with uuid RQr0HS-17ts-1k6Y-Xnex-IZwi-Y2kM-vCc5mP.
Cannot restore Volume Group vg3 with 1 PVs marked as missing.
Restore failed.
So I went even further, and inserted the disk back - its failed, but it is detectabled for a bit.
vgreduce --removemissing vg3
/dev/vg3/var: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 9638445056: Input/output error
/dev/vg3/var: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 9638502400: Input/output error
WARNING: Partial LV var needs to be repaired or removed.
WARNING: Partial LV pvmove1 needs to be repaired or removed.
There are still partial LVs in VG vg3.
To remove them unconditionally use: vgreduce --removemissing --force.
Proceeding to remove empty missing PVs.
lvremove -fff vg3/var
/dev/vg3/var: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 9638445056: Input/output error
/dev/vg3/var: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 9638502400: Input/output error
Can't remove locked LV var
pvmove --abort
/dev/vg3/var: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 9638445056: Input/output error
/dev/vg3/var: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 9638502400: Input/output error
Cannot change VG vg3 while PVs are missing.
Consider vgreduce --removemissing.
Skipping volume group vg3
And this is the moment, at which I am out of ideas.