Recover virtual machine LVM config when removing physical LVM PV

Yes, I really could not think of a better title for this. 🙂 Recently I added a new drive, connected by USB, to a test server. It was for sharing with a virtual machine running on that server. Chain of oops When I connected the drive to the host, I…

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