topic Re: Disk in Operating System - HP-UX

Disk

Wamaitha — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:06:49 GMT

Hello,
i am trying to add disk to a group -- and getting the message below:
vgcreate /dev/vg01 /dev/dsk/c4t0d0
vgcreate: Physical Volume "/dev/dsk/c4t0d0" contains no LVM information

more info -- system rx6600; 11.23 -- disk i am trying to add are part of the SAN disk that the system was allocated.

thanks

Re: Disk

Hasan Atasoy — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:09:23 GMT

hi wamaitha;

before creating vg ; you need to cretae pv by
pvcreate /dev/dsk/c4t0d0

Hasan.

Re: Disk

Anshumali — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:16:22 GMT

You need to do a pvcreate.

pvcreate /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0

The pvcreate command initializes a direct access storage device (a raw disk device) for use as a physical volume in a volume group.
If this disk was havign a FS but no recorded in /etc/lvmtab, you may need to do pvcreate -f as well.

Anshu

Re: Disk

Wamaitha — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:57:06 GMT

user error --