topic Re: un-EFI parition a disk in 11.31 in Operating System - HP-UX

un-EFI parition a disk in 11.31

Alzhy — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:28:52 GMT

/dev/rdisk/disk11 was a DRD Clone
I did a drd unhost.
I also did a "idisk -R /dev/rdisk/disk11"

But somehow the partitions remain - disk11_p1 to disk11_p3.

I want to reuse this disk as an LVM whole disk (disk11).

Hw do I get rid of these EFI partitions?

I recall doing it successfully before but recall I can't.

TIA.

Re: un-EFI parition a disk in 11.31

Pete Randall — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:37:15 GMT

Just guessing:

pvcreate?

Pete

Re: un-EFI parition a disk in 11.31

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:43:04 GMT

Hi:

# efi_rm

See:

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60103/efi_rm.1M.html

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: un-EFI parition a disk in 11.31

Duncan Edmonstone — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:58:49 GMT

JRF,

efi_rm removes a file in an EFI partition - it doesn't remove an EFI partition.

I think all you need to do after the "idisk -R" is actually just "rmsf /dev/*disk/disk11_p*"

HTH

Duncan

Re: un-EFI parition a disk in 11.31

Torsten. — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:50:42 GMT

Davis can tell you:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1380934

But I think a "pvcreate" against the whole disk would do the same.