Hot plug/unplug SATA drives on Linux

From time to time I need these commands.

Before hot-unplugging a disk drive sdX make sure that no file systems from the disk are mounted, no swap active, no LVM volumes active (N - partition number, VG - volume group, LV - logical volume, PV - physical volume):

lsblk /dev/sdX                 # see what's there
swapon -s | grep sdX           # check for active swap
swapoff /dev/sdXN              # deactivate swap if found
mount | grep sdX               # check for mounted FS
umount /dev/sdXN               # umount them if found
pvs | grep sdX                 # check for PVs
pvdisplay -m /dev/sdXN         # find LVs if a PV found
umount /dev/mapper/VG-LV       # umount LVs if found
lvchange -an /dev/mapper/VG-LV # deactivate LVs if any 

If it is the last PV of a volume group, the VG itself should be deactivated:

vgchange -an VG

Then prepare the device for unplugging (it makes the kernel send power down command to the drive and unregister it):

echo 1 > /sys/block/sdX/device/delete

And then unplug it physically.

After hot-plugging a disk drive on a host adapter X:

echo - - - > /sys/class/scsi_host/hostX/scan 

Then you can mount file systems, activate swap, activate LVs and mount them if needed.