error when creating a volume group

[antoniou]

When creating a volume group vg01 on disk /dev/dsk/c2t1d0 the system crash.
Now when i want to create a vg on this disk, i have the error message
"pvcreate: The physical volume "/dev/dsk/c2t1d0" is already recorded in the "/etc/lvmtab" file."

[Sanjay_6 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Is the disk listed in /etc/lvmtab. Do a "strings /etc/lvmtab" to check.

You can simply do a vgexport to remove that vg info from lvmtab and then do a "pvcreate -f" for this disk and vgcreate to recreate the vg on this disk.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Geoff Wild]

If vg01 does not exist - when you try the vgexport, then mv /etc/lvmtab /etc/lvmtab.bad
vgscan

pvcreate -f /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0

Then recreate the vg..

Rgds...Geoff