/etc/lvmtab and kernel do not agree

[Troyan Krastev]

Hi all,
What about this message:

/usr/sbin/vgcfgbackup "vg00"
vgcfgbackup: /etc/lvmtab is out of date with the running kernel:Kernel indicates
3 disks for "/dev/vg00"; /etc/lvmtab has 2 disks.

I recreated /etc/lvmtab but it doesn't help. I really have 2 disks.
Do I have to reboot the server? It's a production box .....!!!

I see there is a similar message from Rick Garland - 07/13/00,
but I have a problem with the HP site!

Thanks for any help.

Troy

[Rita C Workman · Accepted solution]

I found a few urls that responded to this issue, I felt this one was pretty informative:

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=ba1cbe5416701b1194/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000049624898

Regards,

[Rainer_1]

Before creating the new /etc/lvmtab do

vgreduce -f vg00 # the -f option removes all missing phys. vols

Then you could do

mv /etc/lvmtab /etc/lvmtab.old
vgscan -v