Here is the procedure...
I think somebody created physical volumes(pvcreate) on these disks and let them without adding to any VG u, can findout by:
# pvcreate /dev/dsk/c1t5d0
# pvcreate /dev/dsk/c1t6d0
If it says physical volume already exist, then my guess is correct... In this case u can create a temporaray VG and a single LV using whole space, run newfs, mount filesystem and check data...
Otherwise,
1) # vgdisplay -v | more
and find out which VG is giving error that unable to quesry PV.
2) # vgexport -m -p -v /tmp/vgname.map /dev/vgname
3) check the map file whether all LVs present or not.... and notedown the present disks belongs to VG and minor number.
4) umount all filesystems mounted and make a list of them
5) # vgexport -m /tmp/vgname.map -v /dev/vgname
6) # mkdir -p /dev/vgname
# mknod /dev/vgname/group c 64 0x010000
7) # vgimport -v -m /tmp/vgname.map /dev/vgname /dev/dsk/c1t5d0 /dev/dsk/c1t6d0 /dev/dsk/cxtydz ..... #rest all PVs
8) Mount all the filesystems.
Hope this helps.........
Cheers...
Satish.
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