[HPADM] Filesystem swap removal

From: Julian Rogan (Julian.Rogan_at_Unilever.com)
Date: 08/18/03

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    Hi All,

    I was checking one of my Service Guard Cluster for inconsistencies and I
    noticed that one of the disks in a volume group had a few dozen extents in
    use but had no logical volume name just ?????.

    I created some device files using mknod and using fstyp saw that this was
    a vxfs filesystem. I mounted it and sure enough it was an empty
    filesystem. I though it best to delete it but when I used lvremove I got
    the message:

    Couldn't remove logical volume "lv name"
    You must lvrmboot -s before removing a swap device.

    lvlnboot -v and swapinfo however do not refer to this device. Has these
    been configured as filesystem swap and how can I get rid of it?

    Should I use dd to blat over the front?

    thanks

    Julian 

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