How to remove un unused volume group

[Lars Bylander]

A disk failedin a server, I replaced the bad disk with a new disk. The failed disk contained only one volume group, /dev/vg01.

I try to get rid of vg01:
# string /etc/lvmtab
/dev/vg00
/dev/dsk/c1t2d0
/dev/vg01
/dev/dsk/c2t2d0
# mv /etc/lvmtab /etc/lvmtab.old
# vgscan -v
...
The Volume Group /dev/vg01 was not matched with any physical Volumes.
# string /etc/lvmtab
/dev/vg00
/dev/dsk/c1t2d0

How should I now proceed to get rid of /dev/vg01 completly, and not only from lvmtab?

HP-UX 11i on L2000 servers.

Best regards
Lars Bylander

[Pete Randall]

Easiest is to vgexport it.


Pete

[Lars Bylander]

This the answer of the vgexport preview:

# vgexport -p -v /dev/vg01
Beginning the export process on Volume Group "/dev/vg01".
vgexport: Volume group "/dev/vg01" does not exist in the "/etc/lvmtab" file.
vgexport: Couldn't export volume group "/dev/vg01".

[Asif Sharif · Accepted solution]

Hi Lars,

#cp -p /etc/lvmtab.old /etc/lvmtab

then do vgexport.

Regards,
Asif Sharif

[Lars Bylander]

Thanks Sharif, that did work:
# cp -p lvmtab.old lvmtab
# vgexport -v /dev/vg01
Beginning the export process on Volume Group "/dev/vg01".
/dev/dsk/c2t2d0
Volume group "/dev/vg01" has been successfully removed.

But still the directory /etc/lvmconf contains vg01 related files, how should those be removed?
# ls lvmconf
lvm_lock vg00.conf.old vg01.conf vg01.mapfile
vg00.conf vg00.mapfile vg01.conf.old

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

You can remove them with the rm command. They are not used unless you want to do a vgcfgrestore or something like that.

[Lars Bylander]

Thank you all for taking time to help me.

/Lars

[Lars Bylander]

P.S. Closing thread. D.S.