Need to remove a drive from a drivelink

[Mike Diehl (Encrypted email preferred)]

Hi all.

I have 3 drives linked into on volume.  One of those drives has developed a
bad sector or two.  I know the drive is failing, but for now, all I want to
do is remove it from the link, reformat it, and put it back in.  This is a
bandage solution.

I've freed up enough space on the volume to perform this operation.  I've
unmounted the filesystem.  How do I go about removing the drive from the
link?

TIA,
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[Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)]

Am Freitag, 5. September 2008 17:56:03 schrieb ext Mike Diehl:
> Hi all.
>
> I have 3 drives linked into on volume.  One of those drives has developed a
> bad sector or two.  I know the drive is failing, but for now, all I want to
> do is remove it from the link, reformat it, and put it back in.  This is a
> bandage solution.

Using drivelink is not a good idea. Would have been better to use the LVM2
region manager and add the drive to an existing region.

> I've freed up enough space on the volume to perform this operation.  I've
> unmounted the filesystem.  How do I go about removing the drive from the
> link?

Don't know wether this is possible at all. However, if it was, I guess you
would also need to shrink your filesystem first, so that the drive in question
isn't occupied anymore. If that drive is in the middle of the link, I'm afraid
you're out of luck.

Bye...

        Dirk
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