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Re: DIsk Issue

 
Ashwani K
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DIsk Issue

Dear experts,

I have one doubt. Can I replace a bad disk(if disk is hot swappable) without removing it from vg(without doing vgreduce.

Regards,

Ashwani
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Steven E. Protter
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Re: DIsk Issue

Shalom,

You can do so. There is a vgreduce -f function that will let you get dead disks out of the volume group.

if the disk is really dead there is sometimes no way to get it out of the volume group.

Check the man page, it is not for the light of heart.

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Raj Briden
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Re: DIsk Issue

* replace the disk

* verify the hardware path (it must be same )

* #vgcfgrestore( check man for details)

* #vgsync

check with vgdisplay
Kapil Jha
Honored Contributor

Re: DIsk Issue

vgrestore would work, without reducing the disk from vg.

For most of disk related queries please check
http://www.scribd.com/doc/19493230/When-Good-Disks-Go-Bad

or google When_Good_Disks_Go_Bad.pdf

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Kranti Mahmud
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Torsten.
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Re: DIsk Issue

No need to remove the disk from VG.


See

http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-1236/When_Good_Disks_Go_Bad_WP.pdf


You simply deny LVM access to the disk, then swap the disk. (pvchange -a n ...).

Hope this helps!
Regards
Torsten.

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