How to change accidently activated clustered volume groups back into unclustered state
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Environment
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 4 (SLES 11 SP4)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
Situation
By accident, existing volumes groups on a non mirrored or clustered device have been changed from a local managed into a clustered state as shown by vgs output:
Now the change needs to be reverted.
sles12sp2lvm:/etc/lvm # vgs -a
Skipping clustered volume group vg2
Skipping clustered volume group vg1
VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
system 1 1 0 wz--n- 25.75g 10.75g
Now the change needs to be reverted.
Resolution
Please run the command
to disable the affected volume groups and change the locking_type to 0. Then execute
to activate those volume groups again.
vgchange -cn <list_of_volume_groups> --config 'global { locking_type = 0}'
to disable the affected volume groups and change the locking_type to 0. Then execute
vgchange -ay
to activate those volume groups again.
Additional Information
Example output:
sles12sp2lvm:/etc/lvm # vgchange -cn vg1 vg2 --config 'global { locking_type = 0 }'
WARNING: Locking disabled. Be careful! This could corrupt your metadata.
Volume group "vg1" successfully changed
Volume group "vg2" successfully changed
sles12sp2lvm:/etc/lvm # vgchange -ay vg1 vg2
1 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg1" now active
1 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg2" now active
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- Document ID:7018716
- Creation Date: 17-Mar-2017
- Modified Date:12-Oct-2022
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