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Operating Systems AIX Trouble removing Physical Disk from Volume Group Post 303026981 by rbatte1 on Thursday 6th of December 2018 08:29:35 AM
Old 12-06-2018
First, before anything else, backup your data and make sure it is recoverable in a usable way.
Two tested copies at least.


Looking at this part ....
Code:
#  lspv -l hdisk1
hdisk1:
LV NAME               LPs     PPs     DISTRIBUTION          MOUNT POINT
clodba                719     719     40..223..222..223..11 N/A
# lspv -l hdisk2
hdisk2:
LV NAME               LPs     PPs     DISTRIBUTION          MOUNT POINT
clodba                720     721     00..144..223..223..131 N/A

.... suggests the logical volume is mirrored (as suggested) but you must have (at least) one LP that map to PPs that are both on hdisk2. That's a bit of a problem to the point that it's probably not worth mirroring. Lose hdisk2 and you lose logical volume integrity, the filesystem and data. It may be recoverable as far as the filesystem goes, but the data loss is unpredictable.

You may be able to turn on relocation with a chlv or a chvg -b ....command and force the re-sync. What does the full output of lslv -m clodba give you? Sadly it will be quite long given the number of LPs. You will probably see that copy 1 is entirely on hdisk1 except for one PP. You might manage to force the removal of the PPs from hdisk1 with rmlvcopy clodba 1 hdisk1 and if that works, you will have hdisk1 empty (check lspv -l hdisk1) and hdisk2 should be reduced to just 720 PPs in use.

For the future I would consider setting the volume group mirror pool strictness (is that the -M flag?) to force PPs for each LP to be on separate PVs and even to keep LV copies from being mixed across volumes. Personally, I'm more anorak than that and force the creation/extention to use the PPs I set, but that's just me.


Does that help?
Robin
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PVREMOVE(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       PVREMOVE(8)

NAME
pvremove - remove a physical volume SYNOPSIS
pvremove [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [-t|--test] [-v|--verbose] [--version] [-f[f]|--force [--force]] [-y|--yes] PhysicalVolume [PhysicalVol- ume...] DESCRIPTION
pvremove wipes the label on a device so that LVM will no longer recognise it as a physical volume. OPTIONS
See lvm(8) for common options. -ff, --force --force Force the removal of a physical volume belonging to an existing volume group. Normally vgreduce(8) should be used instead of this command. You cannot remove a physical volume which in use by some active logical volume. -y, --yes Answer yes to all questions. SEE ALSO
lvm(8), pvcreate(8), pvdisplay(8), vgreduce(8) Sistina Software UK LVM TOOLS 2.02.95(2) (2012-03-06) PVREMOVE(8)
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