pvremove will not remove the pv

[Timothy P. Jackson]

hello everyone,

I reinstalled on of my systems. I am trying to set up the mirroring for the root/boot drive. When I try to do a pvcreate it tells me that the pv already belongs to a volume group. So if try to do a pvremove it tells me that it can't do it because it can't find the volume group information. this would be true because I just did a clean install. Is there some way to force the pvremove?

system - rp4440
OS - HP-UX 11.11

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks
Tim

[Torsten. · Accepted solution]

Is this the old mirror? Use pvcreate -f, but with care!

[Fabian Briseño]

Hello Timothy.

If you are absolutely sure that you do not need the info on the disks, do a pvcreate -f

pvcreate -f /dev/rdsk/cxtxdx

-f Force the creation of a physical volume (thus deleting any file system or volume manager information present) without first requesting confirmation.

then do a pvremove

that should solve your problem.

[Timothy P. Jackson]

Hi Torsten,

Yes it is the old mirror. I used the -f option on the pvcreate and it seems to have worked.

Thanks!

Tim

[Timothy P. Jackson]

see above thread.