VG configuration failed

[RASE_1]

Hi,

HP UX 11.23
Smart Array P400 Raid Controller
6 disks

I created 2 logical drives using the Smart Array P400 setup, the first logical drive using 2 disks with Raid 0+1 mode, the second one using 4 disks with Raid 5 mode.
Thus I created vg00 using logical drive 1 and vg01 using ld 02.
For space management raisons, I deleted the logical drive 02 without removing vg01 and included logical volumes. I created 2 new logical dives using both 2 disks with Raid 0+1.
But I'm now unable to create new vg01 and vg02, because it seems that vg01 is still mentionned into the volume groupe configuration. I tried to delete this configuration using vgremove and vgcfgrestore unsuccessfully.

Question: how modify the volume groupe configuration to remove any vg01 information and keep vg00 information only ?

Thanks.

[melvyn burnard]

use vgexport to delete vg01
man vgexport

[likid0 · Accepted solution]

You have to vgexport the vg.

you can do a:
#strings /etc/lvmtab
To see what you have in your config.
If vg01 is there, you should export it with:
#vgexport /dev/vg01

After that you shouldn't have anything related to vg01, in the lvmtab nor in the dev files, you can have a look with:

#ll /dev/*/group