On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 18:13, Roger Heflin <rogerheflin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 11:01 AM Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net> wrote:
>
> Once upon a time, Ian Malone <ibmalone(a)gmail.com> said:
> > Does anyone have suggestions for easily simulating a missing volume in
> > LVM on bare metal?
>
> Actually make a volume go missing? The easiest way to do that would be
> USB volumes (thumb drives), and just yank the drive out. Even if you
> don't want to physically pull the drive, I think you can tell a USB
> device to power down via a sysfs attribute, so that might be sufficient.
>
echo 1 > /sys/block/sdX/device/delete
And the device should disappear.> > --
Thanks both, I'd thought about a USB drive, but didn't have one to
hand at the time that I didn't mind messing up. The sysfs route sounds
a bit safer though, and I can probably find one I don't need any more.
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imalone
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