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Operating Systems AIX Trouble removing Physical Disk from Volume Group Post 303026990 by filosophizer on Thursday 6th of December 2018 02:49:57 PM
Old 12-06-2018
Thanks Rbatte1

Still struggling:

Let continue from here:

Code:
REMOVE COPY from hdisk2

# rmlvcopy clodba 1 hdisk2


# lslv -m clodba
clodba:N/A
LP    PP1  PV1               PP2  PV2               PP3  PV3
0001  0225 hdisk1
0002  0226 hdisk1
.....................................
...............................
..................................







# migratepv -l clodba hdisk1 hdisk2

Resulted in error

Code:
# migratepv -l clodba hdisk1 hdisk2
0516-076 lmigratelv: Cannot remove last good copy of stale partition.
        Resynchronize the partitions with syncvg and try again.
0516-812 migratepv: Warning, migratepv did not completely succeed;
        all physical partitions have not been moved off the PV.

Checking again

Code:



# lsvg -l diskpool_4
diskpool_4:
LV NAME             TYPE       LPs     PPs     PVs  LV STATE      MOUNT POINT
0516-1147 : Warning - logical volume clodba may be partially mirrored.
clodba              jfs        720     1439    3    open/stale    N/A

# lsvg -p diskpool_4
diskpool_4:
PV_NAME           PV STATE          TOTAL PPs   FREE PPs    FREE DISTRIBUTION
hdisk2            active            1117        397         224..00..00..00..173
hdisk1            active            1117        398         184..00..01..00..213

# 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     720     00..223..223..223..51 N/A




# syncvg -v diskpool_4
0516-1296 lresynclv: Unable to completely resynchronize volume.
        The logical volume has bad-block relocation policy turned off.
        This may have caused the command to fail.
0516-934 /etc/syncvg: Unable to synchronize logical volume clodba.
0516-932 /etc/syncvg: Unable to synchronize volume group diskpool_4.


# chlv -b y clodba
0516-012 lchangelv: Logical volume must be closed.  If the logical
        volume contains a filesystem, the umount command will close
        the LV device.
0516-704 chlv: Unable to change logical volume clodba.
#

and then

Code:
# rmlvcopy clodba 1 hdisk1
0516-1939 lquerypv: PV identifier not found in VGDA.
0516-304 getlvodm: Unable to find device id 0000000000000000 in the Device
        Configuration Database.
0516-848 rmlvcopy: Failure on physical volume 0000000000000000, it may be missing
        or removed.

# lspv
hdisk0          00c7780e79838606                    rootvg          active
hdisk1          00c7780e2e21ec86                    diskpool_4      active
hdisk2          00c7780ea5bd16bb                    diskpool_4      active

Last edited by filosophizer; 12-06-2018 at 03:58 PM..
 

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