From: Green, Simon (SGreen@KRAFTEUROPE.COM)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 09:39:28 EDT
Have you done a reducevg? If not, the information on the old disk will
still be in the VGDA, and the ODM will get updated from that.
Simon Green
Philip Morris ITSC Europe
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Verzal [mailto:Bill_Verzal@BCBSIL.COM]
> Sent: 14 August 2002 14:26
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: LVM question
>
>
> OK - I have an LVM question here. I hope one (or more) of
> you LVM experts
> can help me with this one. I'm kinda lost.
>
> I've got a few Regatta's here, and were trying to find an
> efficient way to
> carve up 40 LPAR's. I thought of a way that we could do it with LVM
> Mirroring.
>
> What we did was carve and LPAR with our "standard build",
> mirrored the OS,
> then failed the drive by just pulling it out. I ran some ODM
> commands to
> clean up after ourselves, and re-ran the mirrorvg commands on
> a new disk.
> Everything *looked* fine until we added some space to /usr.
> The system
> complains about a missing PV. I ran synclvodm and it is
> complaining about
> the missing disk. I looked in CuAt and there was my old entry for the
> missing disk. I removed it via odmdelete. I _did_ save CuAt
> first though.
>
> Now, when I do a getlvodm on the PVID, it still shows up
> there. How do I
> get rid of it ? There is synclvodm, getlvodm and putlvodm - but no
> "rmlvodm".
>
> How do I get rid of a phantom PVID on the lvm ?
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