Cannot remove vg. Physical device not part of vg.

[Craig A. Sharp]

I have a vg that is existing in the lvmtab file. I am not able to remove the vg as the physical volume that is shown in the lvmtab is not part of the volume group. If I try to remove the volume I get:

# vgremove /dev/vg19
vgremove: Volume group not activated.

If I try to activate the vg I get:

# vgchange -a y /dev/vg19

vgchange: Warning: Couldn't attach to the volume group physical volume "/dev/dsk/c6t11d0":
Cross-device link
vgchange: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c6t11d0":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
vgchange: Warning: couldn't query all of the physical volumes.
vgchange: Couldn't activate volume group "/dev/vg19":
Quorum not present, or some physical volume(s) are missing.

HELP?

Thanks,

Craig

[Helen French]

Hi Craig:

You can do a 'vgexport' on that VG:

# vgexport /dev/vg19

HTH,
Shiju

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

If the export fails then

mv lvmtab to lvmtab.bak

vgscan -a to recreate the lvmtab

SEE MAN VGSCAN first.


HTH

Paula

[Mark Greene_1]

sounds like you have a similar issue to what I just dealt with. check the replys here:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xef6442308663d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

HTH
mark

[Mladen Despic]

vgreduce -f vgxx

[Geetha Alagappan]

PS try vgexport vgname. Then if it still doesn't work do a vgscan -v to recreate lvmtab.

[Jon Finley]

Rule of thumb:

If the volume group is activated you can reduce out the disk with: vgreduce -f

If the volume group is NOT activated, you can remove the disk with: vgexport


Jon

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Craig,

Try this link on how to remove a ghost / non-existant disk,

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=8484ada61a7103eed4/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000060353714

Hope this helps.

Regds