pvcreate issue

[Rahul Pednekar]

Dear All,

I have exported a vg to which the below device belongs to. now I want to create this as a new PV and extend some other VG when I try to vreate it as a ne PV it give me some error. below is the error.

# pvcreate /dev/rdsk/c12t0d6
pvcreate: The physical volume already belongs to a volume group

# strings /etc/lvmtab
/dev/vg00
/dev/dsk/c2t0d0
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0
/dev/vg01
/dev/dsk/c12t0d1
/dev/vg02
/dev/dsk/c12t0d2
/dev/vg03
/dev/dsk/c12t0d4
/dev/vg04
/dev/dsk/c12t0d5


Please help

Thanks in Advance,,

Rahul

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi Rahul,

# pvcreate -f /dev/rdsk/c12t0d6
-f force

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[melvyn burnard]

try using pvcreate -f

If that fails, do:
dd if=/stand/vmunix of=/dev/rdsk/c12t0d6 bs=10k

Then retry the pvcreate

[Rahul Pednekar]

Thanks All

Resolved the issue