"Can't remove final physical volume" when vgreduce was issued.

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Issue

  • I wanted to remove a PV from VG, but I got "Can't remove final physical volume"
[root@server]# vgs
  VG             #PV #LV #SN Attr   VSize   VFree
  server-vg00001   1   0   0 wz--n-  51.07G  51.07G

[root@server]# pvs
  PV              VG             Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree
  /dev/sda4       server-vg00001 lvm2 a-    51.07G  51.07G

[root@server]# vgreduce server-vg00001 /dev/sda4
  Can't remove final physical volume "/dev/sda4" from volume group "server-vg00001"

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
  • lvm2-2.02.56-8.el5

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