topic Re: Free PE or ??? in Operating System - HP-UX

Free PE or ???

Jos de Ruiter — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:08:49 GMT

I have a problem, i have remove a lvDBMS true SAM, so er must be free space on the disk.
When i look pvdisplay -v /dev/dsk/c1t15d0 then a see " current ???" it must be "current Free"
What can i do.

Groetjes,
Jos de Ruiter

Re: Free PE or ???

Pete Randall — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:10:18 GMT

Do you still see the lv in your pvdisplay or is it gone?

Pete

Re: Free PE or ???

G. Vrijhoeven — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:11:18 GMT

Hi Jos,

What do you get with vgdisplay -v?

Gideon

Re: Free PE or ???

Jos de Ruiter — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:18:30 GMT

with lvdisplay it is gone. with vgdisplay -v it is gone

Re: Free PE or ???

Jos de Ruiter — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:22:29 GMT

Here this is what i see:

00358 current ??? 01421
00359 current ??? 01422
00360 current ??? 01423
00361 current ??? 01424
00362 current /dev/vg00/lvol5 00000
00363 current /dev/vg00/lvol5 00001
00364 current /dev/vg00/lvol5 00002

I now de excate lokatie on the disk.

Groetjes,
Jos de Ruiter.

Re: Free PE or ???

Pete Randall — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:28:52 GMT

It sounds like something went wrong when SAM tried to remove it. Have you looked at the SAM log? Is there an error message that might give us more to work with?

Pete

Re: Free PE or ???

Jos de Ruiter — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:06:38 GMT

Wel i salvage the problem self, i restore /dev/vg00/lvDBMS and /dev/vg00/rlvDBMS.
I put the right thing in the /etc/fstab.
So it seems to work

Groetjes,
Jos de Ruiter.

Re: Free PE or ???

Todd McDaniel_1 — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 14:52:42 GMT

Jos,

This is why I dont use SAM for 99% of my LVM work...

I script or do command line for virtually all my LVM work. I just dont trust SAM that much with my system.

Sure you get some level of double checking and SAM can prevent you from making a stupid mistake... but I believe SAM is more trouble than it is worth for LVM work... SURE it is fine for kernel mods and other things, but NOT for LVM...

You can go look at the SAM log under /var/sam/log/samlog.....

Re: Free PE or ???

Todd McDaniel_1 — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 14:53:59 GMT

oops hit enter too soon...

I meant you can go look at the samlog to see what commands were run... if you want to get more familiar with LVM...

no points here...