It depends what you want to do with it. You can choose to use it as either a simple disk, slice it and use it; or you can add it to a volume group and then use LVM to help manage it, which is far more flexible.
Can you show us the output from:-
I would generally suggest adding the LUN to a volume group, then creating or extending logical volumes and filesystems to suit your needs. What plans do you have for the space?
i have to repartition some of my filesystems ...
I have just one HDD ....
df -k gives this :-
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 830107 45532 726468 6% /
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 1987399 785728 1142050 41% /usr
/proc ... (1 Reply)
hi,
i have a volume on a LUN of an EMC-storage and i need to increase the
size.
i could increase the size of the LUN on the EMC, i could increase the
size of the disk for solaris, but how can i tell the veritas volume
manager that the disk is larger now?
what i've done:
1. LUN on EMC
2.... (3 Replies)
I just installed IBMsdd on Solaris diver along with the patches recommended. I also installed 2 - 2Gigs qlogic fiber cards & the corresponding pkges for the cards.
What command can I use to scan this LUN disks from my Soalris servers. Solaris doen't seem to be seeing this disks presented on it.... (2 Replies)
Hello guys,
It would be so nice of you if someone can provide me with these informations.
1) My SAN group assigned 51G of LUN space to the VIO server.I ran cfgdev to discover the newly added LUN. Unfortunately most of the disks that are in VIO server is 51G. How would I know which is the newly... (3 Replies)
I have a list of LUN ID, my task is to find if disk has been added or not. How do I do that? I have been searching the forum and not able to find answer.
thanks (4 Replies)
Hello Team i have a file with following data (as columns).
I need implement a syntax like below for altering table
ALTER TABLE1 TABLENAME
ADD COLUMN COL1 CHAR(5) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT
ADD COLUMN COL2 CHAR(5)
..
..
ADD COLUMN COLn CHAR(5) NOT NULL... (1 Reply)
HI all,
I am confused when I am seeing the output of bdf command ioscan -fnC disk, there is no same files which i have seen in bdf output and ioscan output...One volume was mounted in one folder called /teldb and device file path was /dev/disk/disk48. The same i didnt found in ioscan disk... (6 Replies)
Hi I am a newbie here. I tried searching for the solution but I guess I either didn't find it or there hasn't been one posted.
my problem is I spooled the results of a query into a .txt file. When I cat the file the formating looks great. All the columns are aligned. However once I mailx the... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I am having the file below
I need that as below
Thanks,
Arun (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: arunkumar_mca
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vgremove
VGREMOVE(8) System Manager's Manual VGREMOVE(8)NAME
vgremove - remove a volume group
SYNOPSIS
vgremove [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [-v|--verbose] VolumeGroupName [VolumeGroupName...]
DESCRIPTION
vgremove allows you to remove one or more volume groups. The volume group(s) must not have any logical volumes allocated and must also be
inactive (see vgchange(8) ).
OPTIONS
-d, --debug
Enables additional debugging output (if compiled with DEBUG).
-h, --help
Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
-v, --verbose
Gives verbose runtime information about vgremove's activities.
DIAGNOSTICS
vgremove returns an code code of 0 for success and > 0 for error:
1 no volume group name on command line
2 error setting up freed physical volume
3 error writing freed physical volume(s) to disk(s)
4 error removing volume group from lvmtab
5 can't remove volume group containing logical volumes
6 invalid volume group name
7 volume group is active
8 not all physical volumes are online
9 error accessing volume group
10 error reading volume group data from disk(s)
95 driver/module not in kernel
96 invalid I/O protocol version
97 error locking logical volume manager
98 invalid lvmtab (run vgscan(8))
99 invalid command line
See alsolvm(8), vgcreate(8), vgreduce(8)AUTHOR
Heinz Mauelshagen <Linux-LVM@Sistina.com>
Heinz Mauelshagen LVM TOOLS VGREMOVE(8)