LVM Removing VG with missing disk

If you removed a disk from a server and forgot to cleanly remove the configuration you may experience something similar.

Below shows what happens with lvremove:

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# lvremove --force --verbose /dev/vg02/u01
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  WARNING: Device for PV ore6TE-2ues-rc5q-mkCN-hEHE-C4Av-paaxEH not found or rejected by a filter.
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    There are 1 physical volumes missing.
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    Archiving volume group "vg02" metadata (seqno 2).
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    Releasing logical volume "u01"
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  Aborting vg_write: No metadata areas to write to!

Some people seem to have success with vgreduce commands but I ended up making a fake device and extending the VG in order to cleanup the LV.

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# lvs
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  WARNING: Device for PV ore6TE-2ues-rc5q-mkCN-hEHE-C4Av-paaxEH not found or rejected by a filter.
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  LV   VG   Attr       LSize   Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
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  opt  vg01 -wi-ao---- 995.00g
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  u01  vg02 -wi-----p- 248.00g
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# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/tmp.raw bs=1M count=100
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100+0 records in
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100+0 records out
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104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 0.0763176 s, 1.4 GB/s
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# losetup -f
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/dev/loop0
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# losetup /dev/loop0 /tmp/tmp.raw
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# vgextend vg02 /dev/loop0
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  WARNING: Device for PV ore6TE-2ues-rc5q-mkCN-hEHE-C4Av-paaxEH not found or rejected by a filter.
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  WARNING: Device for PV ore6TE-2ues-rc5q-mkCN-hEHE-C4Av-paaxEH not found or rejected by a filter.
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  Physical volume "/dev/loop0" successfully created.
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  WARNING: Device for PV ore6TE-2ues-rc5q-mkCN-hEHE-C4Av-paaxEH not found or rejected by a filter.
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  Volume group "vg02" successfully extended
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# vgremove vg02 --force
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  WARNING: Device for PV ore6TE-2ues-rc5q-mkCN-hEHE-C4Av-paaxEH not found or rejected by a filter.
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  Logical volume "u01" successfully removed
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  Volume group "vg02" successfully removed
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# pvremove /dev/loop0
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  WARNING: Device for PV ore6TE-2ues-rc5q-mkCN-hEHE-C4Av-paaxEH not found or rejected by a filter.
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  Labels on physical volume "/dev/loop0" successfully wiped.
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# losetup -d /dev/loop0
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# rm /tmp/tmp.raw
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# lvs
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  LV   VG   Attr       LSize   Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
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  opt  vg01 -wi-ao---- 995.00g
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# vgs
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  VG   #PV #LV #SN Attr   VSize   VFree
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  vg01   1   1   0 wz--n- 999.99g 4.99g
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# pvs
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  WARNING: Device for PV ore6TE-2ues-rc5q-mkCN-hEHE-C4Av-paaxEH not found or rejected by a filter.
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  PV         VG   Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree
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  /dev/sdb   vg01 lvm2 a--  999.99g 4.99g