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