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Operating Systems AIX Stale PPs in AIX, failed disks.. how to replace? Post 302922693 by c3rb3rus on Monday 27th of October 2014 07:42:31 PM
Old 10-27-2014
Thanks for the reply bakunin.

Going down what you suggested, I ran...

Code:
# varyonvg -fnr vg_usr1
0516-1293 varyonvg: Volume group is currently in read-write mode.
        Use varyoffvg before varyon volume group in different mode.

So now I try.. "varyoffvg -s vg_usr1".

According to man varyoffvg, -s puts group in system maintenance mode..

But also no luck..

Code:
# varyoffvg -s vg_usr1
0516-012 lvaryoffvg: Logical volume must be closed.  If the logical
        volume contains a filesystem, the umount command will close
        the LV device.
0516-942 varyoffvg: Unable to vary off volume group vg_usr1.


So, keep going.. unmount /usr1 and I get..

Code:
umount: 0506-349 Cannot unmount /dev/lv_usr1: The requested resource is busy.

Figured out what resources are using /usr1 via fuser and got rid of them, was able to run varyoffvg -s vg_usr1 fine this time.

Next I ran varyoffvg -s vg_usr1, it worked but varyonvg still complained about read-write mode, so ran varyoffvg without the -s switch, it took it and was able to run varyonvg -fnr vg_usr1 fine.

Code:
# varyonvg -fnr vg_usr1
PV Status:      hdisk0  00044d4dfbb11575        PVACTIVE
                hdisk1  0000150179158027        PVACTIVE
                hdisk2  00001501791582c2        PVACTIVE
                hdisk3  000015013a9148db        PVMISSING
                hdisk4  00001501791587df        PVACTIVE
                hdisk5  0000150179158a75        PVACTIVE
                hdisk6  00001501792ff38b        PVACTIVE
                hdisk7  00001501792ff659        PVACTIVE
                hdisk8  000015019dbd4c34        PVACTIVE
                hdisk9  0000150178bb04a2        PVACTIVE
                hdisk22 000015019dbd4ed5        PVACTIVE
                hdisk24 00001501791bf1c6        PVACTIVE
                hdisk25 00001501791bf48f        PVACTIVE
                hdisk26 00001501791bf72e        PVACTIVE
                hdisk27 00001501791bfa40        PVACTIVE
                hdisk28 00001501791bfce5        PVACTIVE
                hdisk29 00001501791bff84        PVACTIVE
                hdisk30 00001501792ff909        PVACTIVE
                hdisk31 00001501792ffbcc        PVMISSING
                hdisk32 00001501caf49d70        PVACTIVE
                hdisk33 0000150179310ec5        PVACTIVE
                hdisk34 000015010dd840e2        PVACTIVE
varyonvg: Volume group vg_usr1 is varied on.

I have attached the "map.txt" file which is the output of lslv -m for lv_usr1.. any pointers on analyzing this file to check and see if data is missing?

Am I looking to see that a LP# is not on both failed disks?
map.txt (310.9 KB) 
 

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