PV Status unavailable

[Eva Carrasco Gonzalez]

Hello
i have a problem. i have got a HP-UX with volume group and its disk are unavailable but its volumens are available/sync

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Eva,

Probably one of two things:

1) /etc/lvmtab is corrupt & a rm of it followed by a vgscan will cure it.

2) The lvmtab doesn't agree with the kernel.
In that case you may need to preceed the above with a vgreduce -f /dev/vg_name to get things back in sync.

HTH,
Jeff

[Helen French]

Did you check if the disk is actually available on the system? Check the output of:

# ioscan -fnC disk
# diskinfo
# pvdisplay -v pv_name
# vgdisplay -v vg_name

Is that a problem with a single disk? How many disks are there in the VG?

[Eva Carrasco Gonzalez]

no is a single disk. and this problem is in different VG.

[Kent Ostby]

Do a "diskinfo /dev/rdsk/" and also check the ioscan output.

When you say it is unavailable, what message are you seeing from the system that tells you that it is unavailable ?

Kent