topic Re: Volume group removal in Operating System - HP-UX

Volume group removal

EU-Admins-UNIX — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:54:29 GMT

We have 3 VG's that have device files associated to them:

root@xxxxxx at / =>ll /dev | grep vgL
drwxr-xr-x   2 root       sys             96 Jul 19 02:33 vgL01
drwxr-xr-x   2 root       sys             96 Jul 19 02:45 vgL11
drwxr-xr-x   2 root       sys             96 Jul 19 02:48 vgL13

They cannot be vgdisplayed or wgexported, nor are they in the lvmtab.

They don't seem to exist.

Is it as simple as just deleting these files or are there any other commands I can try

Regards

Tariq

Re: Volume group removal

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:26:34 GMT

If they're not in /etc/lvmtab, or if running 11.31 and using VG 2.x volume groups the lvmtab_p file, then chances are you can just remove the directories from /dev without any problems.

Re: Volume group removal

EU-Admins-UNIX — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:45:58 GMT

Thanks Patrick

Re: Volume group removal

Bill Hassell — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:17:58 GMT

Without any entries in lvmtab, these are just simple directories and files. They can be removed.

Why they are there can only be guessed but they can certainly be recreated. The only purpose of the directory is to hold the group and lvol special files.