Problem with LVMTAB

[Abdel Guelmamene]

Hi,

I ve created a new VG VG04 like this

#pvcreate /dev/rdsk/c9t2d5
#mkdir /dev/vg04
#mknod /dev/vg04/group c 64 0x020000
#vgcreate /dev/vg04 /dev/dsk/c9t2d5

I cheked the lvmtab
#strings /etc/lvmtab

The result
/dev/vg00
/dev/dsk/c1t6d0
/dev/dsk/c2t6d0
/dev/vg02
/dev/dsk/c8t0d0
/dev/dsk/c8t0d1
/dev/dsk/c8t0d2
/dev/dsk/c8t0d3
/dev/dsk/c8t0d4
/dev/dsk/c8t0d5
/dev/dsk/c8t0d6
/dev/dsk/c8t0d7
/dev/dsk/c8t1d0
/dev/dsk/c8t1d1
/dev/dsk/c8t1d2
/dev/dsk/c8t1d3
/dev/dsk/c8t1d4
/dev/dsk/c8t1d5
/dev/dsk/c8t1d6
/dev/dsk/c8t1d7
/dev/dsk/c8t2d0
/dev/dsk/c8t2d1
/dev/dsk/c8t2d2
/dev/dsk/c8t2d3
/dev/dsk/c8t2d4
/dev/vg04
6=-'P
/dev/dsk/c9t2d5


I can't understand these too lasts lines :
/dev/vg04
6=-'P
/dev/dsk/c9t2d5

Is there any problem??? what's mean 6=-'P ???

My OS is 11.0

Regards

[Tom Geudens]

Hi,
Don't worry about it, it's a result of the strings command that translates everything it can from the /etc/lvmtab file.
It happens that there's some strange chars in there from time to time.

Regards,
Tom

[Thierry Poels_1]

Hi,

don't worry about this. /etc/lvmtab is NOT a text file. The strings command simply tries to extract text from the file, but cannot guarantee no rubbish is displayed.

regards,
Thierry.

[BFA6]

Hi,

Here is part of one of my lvmtab files

/dev/vg00
/dev/dsk/c1t9d0
/dev/dsk/c1t12d0
/dev/dsk/c2t12d0
/dev/dsk/c0t5d0
/dev/vg01
wd^:4k
/dev/dsk/c0t8d0
/dev/dsk/c2t9d0

It too has odd characters in it, but as said before it is not a problem.

Hilary

[Abdel Guelmamene]

Hi,

Thanks for theses helps

Regards

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

As mentioned there is no real problem, however, before you run this command:

#mknod /dev/vg04/group c 64 0x020000

do a

# ll /dev/*/group

just to make sure 0x02 will uniquely identify the VG...
Usually I create vg04 with 0x04 .. just to avoid possible confusion later.. (there is nothing wrong with choosing 0x02 for vg04, except if you've already used it!)

Later,
Bill

[Frank Slootweg]

Now the problem has been solved, please assign points. Thanks.

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