lvremove fail

[PETIT Cédric]

Hi,

When I try to remove a logical volume with the command: lvremove -f /dev/vg01/lvol1, HP-UX 11.00 says "The specified logical volume is open, or a sparing operation is in progress"

The command: fuser -u /dev/vg01/lvol1 says "/dev/vg01/lvol1:"

The command: lsof /dev/vg01/lvol1 says nothing.

vgdisplay -v /dev/vg01 says that /dev/vg01/lvol1 is in volume group vg01.

TIA

[MARTINACHE]

Could you try :

lsof /dev/vg00/rlvol1 ?

[Vincent Farrugia]

Hello,

Did you unmount the lvol first?

[Holger Knoppik]

Hmmmm ...
I encountered that error while having a filesystem mounted. Does it match ?
HTH
RGDS, Holger

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

The "sparing operation in progress" error tells me you probably got LVM hot sparing configured in one of the physical disk in VG01.
What's the output of these ..

# vgdisplay -v vg01
# lvdisplay -v /dev/vg01/lvol1
# pvdislay -v

Later,
Bill

[PETIT Cédric]

The filesystem does not mounted.

lsof /dev/vg01/rlvol1 says nothing.

[PETIT Cédric]

For Bill,

Rgds

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

I don't have MirrorDisk so can verify if this will work,
but,

pvchange -z n /dev/dsk/c0t5d0

then continue on.

man pvchange for more.

Later,
Bill

[Vincent Farrugia]

Hello,

For what is this vg used? if you have only this vg, then lvol1 is usually used to mount /stand in it...

[PETIT Cédric]

I don't have Mirror Disk.

Volume Group vg00 for my system.

And Volume Group vg01 for our applications.

Gilles

[MARTINACHE]

If you can stop your server, reboot in maintenance mode and try to remove lvol1 ...

[Bill McNAMARA_1 · Accepted solution]

okay, forget my comments,
I suggest booting into lvmmaintenance mode

ISL> hpux -lm

# vgchange -a y vg00
# mount -a
(forget vg01 errors)
# vgchange -a y vg01
# lvremove /dev/vg01/lvol1

That's gotta work!

Later,
Bill

[PETIT Cédric]

OK

I will try in LVM maintenance as soon as possible.

Thanks to all

Rgds,

Gilles