topic incorrect lvmtab in Operating System - HP-UX

incorrect lvmtab

Sergejs Svitnevs — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 05:07:44 GMT

Hi,

I have a system running HP-UX 11.11 with 2 VG. It works just fine for me except lvmtav.

"strings /etc/lvmtab" shows:
/dev/vg00
/dev/dsk/c2t0d0
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0
/dev/vg01
wsC%5
/dev/dsk/c3t9d0
/dev/dsk/c3t11d0

What does "wsC%5" mean?

Thanks

Re: incorrect lvmtab

Torsten. — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 05:11:46 GMT

Hi,

what is incorrect?

the file /etc/lvmtab is a binary file and the command "strings" shows only "readable" content. For some reasons sometimes there are also other strings shown, but this is normal behavior.

You can ignore the string!

T.

Re: incorrect lvmtab

Torsten. — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 05:13:49 GMT

BTW, see also the man page for strings:

" strings - find the printable strings in an object or other binary file"

Re: incorrect lvmtab

Pete Randall — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 05:14:10 GMT

That's very common and perfectly normal. It's just something that the strings command thought it could translate. Ignore it.

Pete

Re: incorrect lvmtab

RAC_1 — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 05:14:32 GMT

That is a binary file and do not expect ascii text there. at most strings on it may help.

Re: incorrect lvmtab

Joseph Loo — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 05:17:44 GMT

hi,

ignore it, there is no problem with that. refer to this post for a good explanation:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=783917

regards.

Re: incorrect lvmtab

Sergejs Svitnevs — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 05:20:31 GMT

Thanks

Re: incorrect lvmtab

Rajesh SB — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 05:20:58 GMT

Hi,

"wsC%5" looks like lvmtab is not proper.
You try this

Keep the backup of /etc/lvmtab and run command

# vgscan -p
It shows the vg details properly.

Regards,
Rajesh