Jon Martin Solaas wrote:
>
> I was also considering using vgexport, but I'm not really sure what that
> command does, except "make volume groups unknown to the system" (manpage)
>
> I have a brand spanking new 146gb disk which could hold everything
> exported from the volumegroup on /dev/sda2 + /dev/sdb1, but I'm not
> capable of extracting the outcome of using this command from the man-page.
>

vgreduce --removemissing VolGroup00

did the trick.

Just before I had partitioned and formatted the new disk, and changed
partition type from Linux LVM to linux, just in case ...

Now everything is up and running again.

--
martin s.