[Gllug] Removing LVM (RHEL4)

[Joel Bernstein]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:51:00AM +0100, Mick Farmer wrote:
> Dear GLLUGers,
> 
> I'd like to remove the LVM created when I installed RHEL4.
> However, the man page for lvremove states that you can't
> remove an LV that has something mounted on it.  The root
> file system is mounted there!
> 
> Does anyone know of a workround?

Boot off something else which support LVM then? I don't know off the top
of my head /which/ live-cds come with LVM kernel and tools stuff but it
shouldn't be hard to find one. Download, burn, boot. Then your root fs
is on the CD not the hard drive so you can run lvremove.

/joel
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