topic Re: Failed boot drive cannot remove from LVM in Operating System - HP-UX

Failed boot drive cannot remove from LVM

jerrym — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:05:24 GMT

How can I either fix or remove a failed boot hard drive from LVM so I can get an ignite backup.

I can query the drive with diskinfo, unlike another server which has the same problem but I can't do a diskinfo on it.

Since I can query the drive on this server, I figured it can be worked with somehow. Basically I want to either recover the drive or remove it from LVM so I can at least get make_net_recovery of the OS and have HP replace the drive later.

I tried mv /etc/lvmtab to /etc/lvmtab.old and running vgscan -a -v but vg00 fails due to the bad disk and does not get put into /etc/lvmtab.

This server is an HP-UX 11.11 9000/800/rp7420

These are stale and are using failed primary boot drive /dev/dsk/c0t8d0.

lvol8 /var

lvol9 /var/adm/crash

lvnsr /nsr

# strings /etc/lvmtab

/dev/vg00
/dev/dsk/c0t10d0
/dev/dsk/c0t8d0
/dev/dsk/c1t10d0
/dev/dsk/c1t8d0

disk 0 1/0/8/1/0/4/0.8.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 36.4GST336754LC
/dev/dsk/c0t8d0 /dev/rdsk/c0t8d0

# lvdisplay -v /dev/vg00/lvol8
lvdisplay: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c0t8d0":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
lvdisplay: Warning: couldn't query all of the physical volumes.

--- Logical volumes ---
LV Name                     /dev/vg00/lvol8
VG Name                     /dev/vg00
LV Permission               read/write
LV Status                   available/stale
Mirror copies               1
Consistency Recovery        MWC
Schedule                    parallel
LV Size (Mbytes)            4096
Current LE                  256
Allocated PE                512
Stripes                     0
Stripe Size (Kbytes)        0
Bad block                   on
Allocation                  PVG-strict
IO Timeout (Seconds)        default

   --- Distribution of logical volume ---
   PV Name            LE on PV PE on PV
   /dev/dsk/c0t10d0   25        25
   /dev/dsk/c1t10d0   25        25
   /dev/dsk/c1t8d0    231       231

   00023 /dev/dsk/c0t10d0   02168 current /dev/dsk/c1t10d0   02168 current
   00024 /dev/dsk/c0t10d0   02169 current /dev/dsk/c1t10d0   02169 current
   00025 ???                00000 stale    /dev/dsk/c1t8d0    00000 current
   00026 ???                00001 stale    /dev/dsk/c1t8d0    00001 current

# diskinfo /dev/rdsk/c0t8d0
SCSI describe of /dev/rdsk/c0t8d0:
             vendor: HP 36.4G
         product id: ST336754LC
               type: direct access
               size: 0 Kbytes
   bytes per sector: 0

Re: Failed boot drive cannot remove from LVM

Thierry D — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:43:52 GMT

Hi Jerrym,

to do that you have to remove it via the pv key you can get it like follow .

# lvdisplay -v -k /dev/vg00/lvol1|more
--- Logical volumes ---
LV Name                     /dev/vg00/lvol1
VG Name                     /dev/vg00
LV Permission               read/write
LV Status                   available/syncd
Mirror copies               1
....
   --- Logical extents ---
   LE    PV1                     PE1   Status 1 PV2                     PE2   Status 2
   00000      0                  00000 current       1                  00000 current
   00001      0                  00001 current       1                  00001 current
   00002      0                  00002 current       1                  00002 current
   00003      0                  00003 current       1                  00003 current
   00004      0                  00004 current       1                  00004 current
   00005      0                  00005 current       1                  00005 current
   00006      0                  00006 current       1                  00006 current
   00007      0                  00007 current       1                  00007 current

"0" and "1" corresponds to pv key from disks belonging to the VG .

Now basically the following steps apply :

# Remove ghost disk from one LV with mirroring
# -> the disk must be removed from all LV mirror before being vgreduced
# -> get pv key from lv (look for the number on the stale device)
lvdisplay -k -v /dev/vg00/lvol3
# -> remove the mirror for all lv with the key

# ---> If some LV are not using the failed disk the mirror will as well be broken off if I remember well
lvreduce -k -m 0 /dev/vg00/lvol3 <pv-key>
# reduce the vg
vgreduce -l vg00 /dev/dsk/<your-disk>

You will get a good explanation at the following site

http://www.hpuxtips.es/?q=node/124

Regards,

Thierry

Re: Failed boot drive cannot remove from LVM

jerrym — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:24:52 GMT

It works. I had to also take out the disk entry in /etc/lvmpvg file also since we use that.

Thank you so much Thierry. I did not know about using the disk key. The man page does not say much about -k.