Issue with lvremove command....

[OLIVA_1]

Hello,

I have a failed disk used by vg00:
...
PV Name /dev/dsk/c2t2d0
PV Status unavailable
Total PE 4340
Free PE 3828
Autoswitch On
...

I try to remove "/dev/vg00/swap4" with lvremove /dev/vg00/swap4 command but it doesn't work... I can't get back the prompt without kill this command.

So I can't remove this disk from VG and I can't replace it.

Someone can help me ?

Thanks,

[Joseph Loo]

hi,

if the disk has failed, what will lvremove help unless logical volume, /dev/vg00/swap4, happens to be that single disk?

please provide reply on:

# vgdisplay -v vg00


regards.

[Muthukumar_5 · Accepted solution]

What you are getting on this,

fsck -m /dev/vg01/swap4
lvremove -f /dev/vg01/swap4

hth.

[Arunvijai_4]

Try removing with the help of SAM.

# sam

-Arun

[VEL_1]

Its better to remove the failed disk. Refer the following link:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=917332

Thanks

[Muthukumar_5]

Is /dev/vg00/swap4 a swap lv? If you don't want to have vg00 vg with swap then,

# lvrmboot -r /dev/vg00

hth.

[OLIVA_1]

lvremove -f /dev/vg01/swap4 command works but it is necessary to wait about 10min

Thanks,

[Arunvijai_4]

Have you umount it before doing lvremove ? I hope, you did as well. Just wanted to confirm

# lvremove -f removes a logical volume without requiring user confirmation

-Arun

[Mugilvannan]

Did you umount and lvremove -f the lv? I hope that may be a problem.

[Matthew Ghofrani]

If you have a failed disks and assuming it is mirrored (being in vg00, remove the mirror first, then remove the disks by vgreduce...and so on.