From: Nita Hyde (hydejl@SBAC.EDU)
Date: Wed Oct 08 2003 - 08:54:21 EDT
Thanks so much, Basim and Jeff. Between dropping the dbspace and
changing them to raw devices, it worked. Thanks, Guys. You never fail me.
Basim Chafik wrote:
> You have to drop the Informix chunk or dbspace that is using this device.
> use onspaces command or onmonitor utility to do that.
>
> Basim Chafik
>
> Senior Technology Consultant
> IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert - RS/6000 AIX
> Invera Inc.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nita Hyde [mailto:hydejl@SBAC.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 8:04 AM
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: How do I drop raw devices/lv?
>
>
> I have an AIX machine with an Informix database running on it. I
> dropped a test database and would like to reclaim the raw device space
> it occupied. I know the first requirement of Informix is to backup the
> entire database. That has been done. When I attempt to remove the lv,
> I receive the following error:
> 0516-1008 rmlv: Logical volume riftst6lv must be closed. If the logical
> volume contains a filesystem, the umount command will close
> the LV device.
> In /dev, the spaces look like this:
> brw-rw---- 1 informix informix 26, 9 Aug 05 01:52 riftst5lv
> brw-rw---- 1 informix informix 24, 13 Aug 05 01:52 riftst6lv
> crw-rw---- 1 root system 26, 9 Feb 27 2003 rriftst5lv
> crw-rw---- 1 root system 24, 13 Mar 05 2003 rriftst6lv
> A list of the lv's shows this:
> LV NAME TYPE LPs PPs PVs LV STATE MOUNT POINT
> riftst5lv jfs 116 116 2 open/syncd N/A
> riftst6lv jfs 86 86 2 open/syncd N/A
>
> There is no associated mounted file system. How do I close these lv's
> and reclaim this space? TIA
> --
> Nita Hyde, Systems Programmer
> School Board of Alachua County
> 620 East University Avenue
> Gainesville, Fl. 32601
> Phone (352) 955-7500 Ext. 248
> Fax (352) 955-6700
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