pb during creation of vg

[J. Falissard]

Hi,

I had this error when i wanted extend a vg :

vgextend /dev/vge300w /dev/dsk/c5t8d1 /dev/dsk/c4t8d2
vgextend: Couldn't install the physical volume "/dev/dsk/c4t8d2".
Too many links
vgextend: Physical volume "/dev/dsk/c4t8d2" could not be deleted from the "/etc/lvmtab" file.
There is now an inconsistency between the LVM device driver
and the "/etc/lvmtab" file.
vgextend: Couldn't install the physical volume "/dev/dsk/c4t8d2".
Too many links

What's the pb ??

[RAC_1]

Is the disk /dev/dsk/c4t8d2, an alternate path some disk, that is already in vg??

Also how many pvs are there in this vg?? By default only 16 pvs can be added, unless you used -p option while creating vg.

Anil

[Steven E. Protter]

You may need to run through a process to clean up /etc/lvmtab

First, make sure the disk is not part of any volume group.

mv /etc/lvmtab /etc/lvmtab.sav

vgscan -a

creates a new lvmtab file.

Also, please give me a little background on whats going on.

SEP