lvmconf

[A.G.M. Velthof]

Hello All,
Do I need to keep the *conf.old files in /etc/lvmconf?
Or can I just remove them. I need to cleanup a little.

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

I believe you should have one of them for each of your VGs, however, if they aren't very recent, then there is little possibility that they might be needed and should be safe to remove.


Pete

[AwadheshPandey]

when you are modifing any vg info, ie. lvextend, lvcreate, lvremove etc, the current configuration of volume group used to save in vgxx.conf.old.
visit the link below.
http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60130/vgmodify.1M.html
http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-6481/ch03s03.html
http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-6481/5991-6481.pdf

[A.G.M. Velthof]

Thanks for the quick reply

[tkc]

check the date of those config files. if it's been too old, you may want to run a vgcfgbackup to backup the existing lvm config. refer to :

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60130/vgcfgbackup.1M.html

[Aneesh Mohan]

Its really better to keep the conf file ,while replacing any disk it may help you to do restore the vgstructure on the that.

You can save the conf file to other place also using vgcfgbackup.

#vgcfgbackup -f /tmp/vg00.conf vg00
Volume Group configuration for /dev/vg00 has been saved in /tmp/vg00.conf

Aneesh