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Operating Systems AIX mkvg fails Post 69814 by osee on Wednesday 20th of April 2005 11:58:40 AM
Old 04-20-2005
mkvg fails

# mkvg -y temp_vg hdisk5
0516-1254 mkvg: Changing the PVID in the ODM.
0516-1207 mkvg: An invalid physical volume ID been detected on hdisk5.
0516-862 mkvg: Unable to create volume group.

???
What do I do? AIX 4.3.3
I have seen something like this before but I don't remember the solution...
 

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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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