AIX

Hi,

What is the typical AIX procedure for creating a logical volume from CLI.

I have mostly worked on HPUX so far and on which the typica steps are:

1: pvcreate -f /dev/rdsk/<mydisk>
2: mkdir /dev/<myvg>
3: mknod /dev/<myvg>/group C 64 <0x030000>
4: vgcreate /dev/<myvg> /dev/dsk/<mydisk>
5:lvcreate -L <1000> /dev/<mydg>/

On one of my AIX box,while trying to do mkvg,i am getting following error message:


[root@labaix10:/]# mkvg -f -y vg1 hdisk183
0516-1254 mkvg: Changing the PVID in the ODM.
0516-1397 mkvg: The physical volume hdisk183, will not be added to
the volume group.
0516-862 mkvg: Unable to create volume group.

[root@labaix10:/]# echo $?
1

More info:
[root@labaix10:/]# uname -a
AIX labaix10 3 5 0004703ED700
[root@labaix10:/]# oslevel
5.3.0.0

[root@labaix10:/]# lsvg
rootvg
[root@labaix10:/]# lspv
hdisk0 0004703ea1ffac35 rootvg active
hdisk1 0004703ef54cfd06 None
hdisk183 none None <===
hdisk184 none None
hdisk185 none None
hdisk186 none None
hdisk187 none None
hdisk188 none None
hdisk189 none None
hdisk190 none None
hdisk191 none None
hdisk192 none None

~amit