New disk problem

[Damien Brown]

I did all those command and i have copied and pasted them into a word document

thanks

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Damien,

Yep. I don't see rtvg01 in /dev directory. Since this is only the PV in that VG, you can safely export it. Do

#vgexport rtvg01

Then use SAM to recreate the VG, filesystems and restore the data.

-Sri

[Damien Brown]

this is what i get if i do that command

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

OK. Since you have come this far run 'vgscan' and recreate the /etc/lvmtab without rtvg01.

#cp /etc/lvmtab /etc/lvmtab.good
#vgscan -a
#strings /etc/lvmtab

Make sure you get all VGs except rtvg01 in there. Once it is confirmed, you can go ahead and recreate this VG. Your vgdisplay -v etc., may complain but next reboot should take care of it.

-Sri

[Damien Brown]

i did thos first three commands and i still can't do it.

here is what i go

if you could please explain how to do this all the way through including the sam part

i need to create volume group rtvg01 and the the logical volumes rtd1 and rtd1v1 and the both need to be 2040mb big.

thanks

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

I am real drowsy.. OK.. one more time..

#mv /etc/lvmtab /etc/lvmtab.junk
#vgscan -a
#strings /etc/lvmtab

That should get you rid of rtvg01.. Post the output before you proceed. Your leftvg* are giving errors. Do you have them working at this time?.

-Sri

[Damien Brown]

sorry for causing so many headaches?

i did that and it's looking pretty good

here is what i got on the screen

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

Can you verify the following now?.

1. Are you sure the VGs leftvg01, leftvg02, leftvg03 not used anymore?. Obviously vgscan couldn't find the disks corresponding to them.

2. Run 'mount -a'. You should see only errors related to rtvg01 unless you have bad entries in /etc/fstab file.

3. Run 'lvlnboot -R' and make sure your 'lvlnboot -v' displays boot,root,swap and dump(optionally) lvols.

4. Make sure everything is working fine. Your database, application etc.,.

Once the above is confirmed, proceed with creating a new VG with c1t1d0.

Since you have only one disk in the VG, you could use 'vgscan' command. However, it may not be used as a generic solution in this situation.

-Sri