vgreduce error

[Miguel Carabano_1]

Hi,

I need help!

#vgreduce /dev/vg00 /dev/dsk/c2t6d0s2
vgreduce: Couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c2t6d0s2":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group

Thanks

MC

[Sheriff Andy]

What happens when you do a vgdisplay -v vg00? Could you possibly have the wrong disk name?

[Miguel Carabano_1]

Hi,

#vgdisplay -v vg00
vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c2t6d0s2":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query all of the physical volumes.
--- Volume groups ---
VG Name /dev/vg00
VG Write Access read/write
VG Status available
Max LV 255
Cur LV 10
Open LV 10
Max PV 16
Cur PV 2
Act PV 1
Max PE per PV 4384
VGDA 2
PE Size (Mbytes) 16
Total PE 4318
Alloc PE 2752
Free PE 1566
Total PVG 0
Total Spare PVs 0
Total Spare PVs in use 0

vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c2t6d0s2":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query all of the physical volumes.
--- Logical volumes ---
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol1
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 1024
Current LE 64
Allocated PE 64
Used PV 1

vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c2t6d0s2":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query all of the physical volumes.
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol2
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 10240
Current LE 640
Allocated PE 640
Used PV 1

vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c2t6d0s2":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query all of the physical volumes.
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol9
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 10240
Current LE 640
Allocated PE 640
Used PV 1

vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c2t6d0s2":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query all of the physical volumes.
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol3
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 1024
Current LE 64
Allocated PE 64
Used PV 1

vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c2t6d0s2":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query all of the physical volumes.
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol4
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 1024
Current LE 64
Allocated PE 64
Used PV 1

vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c2t6d0s2":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query all of the physical volumes.
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol5
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 1024
Current LE 64
Allocated PE 64
Used PV 1

vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c2t6d0s2":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query all of the physical volumes.
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol6
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 4096
Current LE 256
Allocated PE 256
Used PV 1

vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c2t6d0s2":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query all of the physical volumes.
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol7
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 4096
Current LE 256
Allocated PE 256
Used PV 1

vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c2t6d0s2":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query all of the physical volumes.
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol8
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 3072
Current LE 192
Allocated PE 192
Used PV 1

vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c2t6d0s2":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query all of the physical volumes.
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol10
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 8192
Current LE 512
Allocated PE 512
Used PV 1


--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2
vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c2t6d0s2":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query all of the physical volumes.
PV Status available
Total PE 4318
Free PE 1566
Autoswitch On

[Sheriff Andy]

I assume that this root drive is mirrored.

Now what happens when you do a;

lvdisplay -v /dev/vg00/lvol7 | more

I would assume (if you have mirroring) that one of the disks would be stale.

Have you tried doing an lvsplit?

[Miguel Carabano_1]

Hi,

lvdisplay -v /dev/vg00/lvol7 | more
lvdisplay: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c2t6d0s2":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
lvdisplay: Warning: couldn't query all of the physical volumes.
--- Logical volumes ---
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol7
VG Name /dev/vg00
LV Permission read/write
LV Status available/syncd
Mirror copies 0
Consistency Recovery MWC
Schedule parallel
LV Size (Mbytes) 4096
Current LE 256
Allocated PE 256
Stripes 0
Stripe Size (Kbytes) 0
Bad block on
Allocation strict
IO Timeout (Seconds) default

--- Distribution of logical volume ---
PV Name LE on PV PE on PV
/dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2 256 256

--- Logical extents ---
LE PV1 PE1 Status 1
00000 /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2 01792 current
00001 /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2 01793 current
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How i can resolve this problem ???

[Miguel Carabano_1]

Hi,

After apply vgreduce, now! don't update lvmconf.

#vgcfgbackup /dev/vg00 vgcfgbackup: /etc/lvmtab is out of date with the running kernel:Kernel indicate.
Cannot proceed with backup.

Any help it's good!

Thanks

[Sheriff Andy]

You aren't in a mirror. Hope you have a good ignite.

What do you get when you do;

vgcfgrestore -n vg00 -l

As a last resort, you could try using the vgscan command.

Try the vgscan -pv , then try doing a vgscan. You might have to rename the /etc/lvmtab file if it is corrupt.

[Mridul Shrivastava]

Hi,

if you execute "lvdisplay -k" on all the lv's it will give you the pvkey value of the missing disk then execute lvreduce -k command using that key value for all the lvs. At last execute vgreduce command.
or
If lvmtab doesn't have this physical disk entry then simply execute the following command:
# vgreduce -f /dev/vg00
the above cdommand will remove the physical disks which are not listed in vg00.

I hope one of the above will definitely solve the issue.

[Jannik]

Am I right in thinking that you have had a failed disk at some point, which you have changed but it wasn't remirrored?
This is what you could do:

First of all take out the faulted disk and don't put in a new. make sure the volume are running:
vgdisplay and lvdisplay.

Now remove the missing pv:
# vgreduce -f /dev/vg01
PV with key 1 sucessfully deleted from vg /dev/vg01

Move the existing lvmtab:
mv /etc/lvmtab /etc/lvmtab.old

Now create a new lvmtab:
# vgscan -v

Create a new vg00.conf
# vgcfgbackup vg00

**** This is here you could stop if you don't want to mirror the system again ****
**** Use "vgdisplay -v vg00" to check ****


Now you Volume consists of only one mirror and you need to remirror it agiain. So put in the new disk and do:
ioscan
insf
find the new disk and add it to the vg01
pvcreate
vgextend
lvextend -m 1 ...

look for more details at this link:
http://www5.itrc.hp.com/service/iv/node.do?admit=552267591+1108810758895+28353475&node=prodITRC%2FWW_Start%2FN1%7C16%7C11

[Darrel Louis]

Hi,

What is the outcome of the following:
# pvdisplay -v /dev/dsk/c2t6d0s2
# diskinfo -v /dev/rdsk/c2t6d0s2

Can you also sent the last 20 lines of vgdisplay -v vg00.

Should disk c2t6d0s2 be the mirror of c0t6d0s2?

Darrel