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Operating Systems AIX clearing PVID Post 302592517 by zaxxon on Tuesday 24th of January 2012 05:53:21 AM

01-24-2012

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Using rmdev does not clear a disk - it unconfigures it on your system; with -d it removes it from your ODM.
It could be that some other box has a reservation on this disk so that might be the reason you are not able to write to it. Maybe also check, before you break it, if this is not a productive disk to some other box.
There should be some LUN Id or device ID you can identify it maybe, whatever type of SAN disk/driver (or VIO inbetweeen?) you are using. You could check at first, if you are able to read from it with dd or readvgda for example. Else you might want to find the box that has the reservation on it and try to remove it from there.

Sometimes it's also good to have a kind of documentation which disks/LUNs are being used for what to limit such problems.

Can also check this:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoce...x_commands.htm
http://www.aixhealthcheck.com/blog.php?id=30

But before clearing reservation, you should be 100% sure you don't disturb a productive system / data.

I am not sure if that command/package is available on your installation anyway - you'll see.

Last edited by zaxxon; 01-24-2012 at 07:04 AM.. Reason: added info

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PAPS(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   PAPS(1)

NAME

       paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango

SYNOPSIS

       paps [options] files...

DESCRIPTION

       paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves
       through the pango ft2 backend.

OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with  two  dashes  (`-').   A  summary  of  options	is
       included below.

       --landscape
	      Landscape output. Default is portrait.

       --columns=cl
	      Number of columns output. Default is 1.

       --font=desc
	      Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12.

       --rtl  Do rtl layout.

       --paper ps
	      Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter, a4. Default is A4.

       --bottom-margin=bm
	      Set bottom margin in postscript points (1/72 inch). Default is 36.

       --top-margin=tm
	      Set top margin. Default is 36.

       --left-margin=lm
	      Set left margin. Default is 36.

       --right-margin=rm
	      Set right margin. Default is 36.

       --help Show summary of options.

       --header
	      Draw page header for each page.

       --markup
	      Interpret the text as pango markup.

       --encoding=ENCODING
	      Assume the documentation encoding is ENCODING.

       --lpi  Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing.

       --cpi  Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size.

       --stretch-chars
	      Indicates  that  characters  should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops
	      behaviour.

AUTHOR

       paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>.

       This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								  April  17, 2006							   PAPS(1)

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