Re: Problems Removing VG
From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green_at_EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: 02/18/05
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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:12:12 +0100 To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
All the stuff you see when you look at your system are just ODM entries.
What probably happened was that changes were made to the physical disks -
removing LVs and the like, updating their VGDAs - but not the ODM: your
system crashed before they could be fully sync'd. Or maybe the other way
round, considering what was going on with your SAN.
All exportvg does is clear out the ODM entries. Ideal for this sort of
circumstance but it's worth remembering that some of your disks may still
have something in their VGDA: if you try to use them again you may well see
a warning that the disk is already part of a volume group.
synclvodm or redefinevg might have fixed your problem, but not a lot of
point in going to that effort when all you wanted to do was get rid of it.
-- Simon Green Altria ITSC Europe s.a.r.l. AIX-L Archive at https://new-lists.princeton.edu/listserv/aix-l.html New to AIX? http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/redbooks.nsf/portals/UNIX N.B. Unsolicited email from vendors will not be appreciated. Please post all follow-ups to the list. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On > Behalf Of Mike Tibor > Sent: 17 February 2005 22:18 > To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU > Subject: Re: Problems Removing VG > > > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Willeat, Todd wrote: > > > Was it already varied off when you were trying to reduce it? > > The strange thing was that prior to the system crash I had > killed the LVs > and removed the volume group, and then rmdev'd the hdisk. I got lazy > though and didn't delete the logical drive on the SAN, so > when the crash > happened, and the system came back up, the hdisk returned. > I've no idea > how the volume group came back. I was thinking that maybe I simply > removed the hdisk and forgot to delete the volume group, but > that doesn't > seem possible.
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