how find Free PV which not been used or Configured Server HPUX 11.11

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

Hi All,

Greetings and Goodday!

Could any help me how to find what are the Free PV which are not been PV-created.? were to check

# uname -a;model
HP-UX B.11.11 U 9000/800 1440564391 unlimited-user license
9000/800/K580

Question:-
1. strings /etc/lvmtab than campare the disks with the ioscan -fnC disk output

2. vgdisplay

Please see the attachment for the ioscan & lvmtab output

Thanks,
Best Regards,
Johnson

[Torsten.]

Hi,

both methods are good to use.

You can also use SAM and let him list the PVs or try
# xvdisk list

Is this a FC60?

[Sandeep_Chaudhary · Accepted solution]

run following commands.


ioscan -funCdisk|grep dsk|awk '{print $1}'|xargs -i pvdisplay {}


if there is any PV which is not associated with any VG it give error for that PV ptherwise shows information like :

--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name /dev/dsk/c3t15d0
VG Name /dev/vg01
PV Status available
Allocatable yes
VGDA 2
Cur LV 2
PE Size (Mbytes) 4
Total PE 8681
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 8681
Stale PE 0
IO Timeout (Seconds) default
Autoswitch On

[Torsten.]

more examples:

# pvdisplay -v /dev/dsk/c0t6d0 | head -n 20
--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name /dev/dsk/c0t6d0
VG Name /dev/vg00
PV Status available
Allocatable yes
VGDA 2
Cur LV 9
PE Size (Mbytes) 4
Total PE 2168
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 2168
Stale PE 0
IO Timeout (Seconds) default
Autoswitch On
Proactive Polling On

# pvck -n /dev/dsk/c0t6d0
pvck: using default blocksize
pvck: /dev/dsk/c0t6d0: LVM checksums usable

# pvck /dev/dsk/c1t2d0
pvck: using default blocksize
pvck: /dev/dsk/c1t2d0 unreadable or not LVM disk


# lvmchk /dev/dsk/c0t6d0
# echo $?
0

# lvmchk /dev/dsk/c1t2d0
# echo $?
1

(see man lvmchk)

[Torsten.]

Please have a look at this:

http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

Hi Sandeep,

Bunch of thanks your reply have solved by Question.

Thanks,
Best Regards,
Johnson