On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 18:13, Roger Heflin <rogerhef...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 11:01 AM Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> wrote:
> >
> > Once upon a time, Ian Malone <ibmal...@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.

-- 
imalone
http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk
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