Corruption in /etc/lvmtab file

[VK2COT]

Hello,

lvmadm(1M) does have flag "-l". Depends on how old your version is.

a) Here is the result of "lvmadm -l":

--- Version 1.0 volume groups ---
VG Name /dev/vg00
PV Name /dev/disk/disk3_p2

VG Name /dev/vg02
PV Name /dev/disk/disk5

VG Name /dev/vgvm
PV Name /dev/disk/disk8

VG Name /dev/vgvm2
PV Name /dev/disk/disk17

VG Name /dev/vg01
PV Name /dev/disk/disk9

b) And here is the result of
"strings /etc/lvmtab":

/dev/vg00
/dev/disk/disk3_p2
/dev/vg02
/dev/disk/disk5
/dev/vgvm
/dev/disk/disk8
/dev/vgvm2
/dev/disk/disk17
/dev/vg01
/dev/disk/disk9

Cheers,

VK2COT

[VK2COT]

You need newver version of patches for lvmadm(1M).

When I teach HP-UX courses, the labs in USA
have HP-UX 11.31 0803 and lvmadm flag "-l"
is missing.

On our HP Education servers in Australia we actually run HP-UX 11.31 0903 and flag "-l"
is there :)

VK2COT

[melvyn burnard]

The -l option for lvmadm was added in the 0809 (Update 3) of HP-UX 11iv3

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

For the rest of us that don't have 11.31 hardware yet.

strings /etc/lvmtab

The funny characters are merely binary characters that form printable characters that the strings command picks up.

No biggie, don't do anything.

SEP

[Patrick Wallek]

Yeah, Steven, I think that was said plenty of times in previous responses! I doubt that it needed to be said yet again!

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

>SEP: For the rest of us that don't have 11.31 hardware yet.

That would be 11.31 _SOFTWARE_ .

...JRF...

[VK2COT]

Hello,

Would a kind person assign points to the
last group of responses if they are useful?

I am trying to earn the ITRC Royalty status
(I need 40-odd points to reach it). For
some odd reason many of my postings are
forgotten to be given any points :(

Cheers,

VK2COT

[raka721]

I have run vgscan -av command & it recreated /etc/lvmtab & contineously running coomand but still not generated /etc/lvmtab_p file ...please help

[Matti_Kurkela]

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@raka721 wrote:

I have run vgscan -av command & it recreated /etc/lvmtab & contineously running coomand but still not generated /etc/lvmtab_p file ...please help

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Only HP-UX 11.31 may have the /etc/lvmtab_p file. Older HP-UX versions will have /etc/lvmtab only.

Do you even have any LVM v2.x volume groups in the system? If you only have LVM v1.0 volume groups, the command might not have any reason to create the /etc/lvmtab_p file.