topic Re: pvcreate issue in Operating System - HP-UX

pvcreate issue

Rahul Pednekar — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:45:32 GMT

Dear All,

I have exported a vg to which the below device belongs to. now I want to create this as a new PV and extend some other VG when I try to vreate it as a ne PV it give me some error. below is the error.

# pvcreate /dev/rdsk/c12t0d6
pvcreate: The physical volume already belongs to a volume group

# strings /etc/lvmtab
/dev/vg00
/dev/dsk/c2t0d0
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0
/dev/vg01
/dev/dsk/c12t0d1
/dev/vg02
/dev/dsk/c12t0d2
/dev/vg03
/dev/dsk/c12t0d4
/dev/vg04
/dev/dsk/c12t0d5

Please help

Thanks in Advance,,

Rahul

Re: pvcreate issue

Robert-Jan Goossens_1 — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:49:04 GMT

Hi Rahul,

# pvcreate -f /dev/rdsk/c12t0d6
-f force

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: pvcreate issue

melvyn burnard — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:49:15 GMT

try using pvcreate -f

If that fails, do:
dd if=/stand/vmunix of=/dev/rdsk/c12t0d6 bs=10k

Then retry the pvcreate

Re: pvcreate issue

Rahul Pednekar — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:18:07 GMT

Thanks All

Resolved the issue