From: "John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org>
To: Annamalai Gurusami <annamalai.gurusami@oracle.com>
Cc: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Identifying Unused VG
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 09:40:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <24481.27617.970157.143521@quad.stoffel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnz2akqc.fsf@oracle.com>
>>>>> "Annamalai" == Annamalai Gurusami <annamalai.gurusami@oracle.com> writes:
Annamalai> "John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org> writes:
>> Looking at your 'lsblk' output, I suspect you can remove drive sda,
>> the Seagate. So I'd probably try to shutdown cleanly, then remove
>> that drive and boot up again.
Annamalai> Finally I was able to spend sometime doing this. And you are correct.
Annamalai> I shutdown the computer and removed the Seagate HDD and started the
Annamalai> computer. Everything went smooth.
Annamalai> Thanks for helping me.
Great! Gald to help. Now what I would do is re-install the Seagte
drive, boot up and then once you've identified it properly, I would
wipe the beginning of the disk with:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd<letter> count=10000
where <letter> would *probably* be 'b' without quotes. But confirm!
Then just reboot the system and you should see only the boot disk,
along with a new blank disk. Then you can do what you want with it.
John
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-03 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-15 10:02 [linux-lvm] Identifying Unused VG Annamalai Gurusami
2020-10-16 14:52 ` John Stoffel
2020-10-19 4:17 ` Annamalai Gurusami
2020-10-19 19:53 ` John Stoffel
2020-11-03 8:49 ` Annamalai Gurusami
2020-11-03 14:40 ` John Stoffel [this message]
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