Problem exporting volume group

[terrywashington]

I am attempting to export a volume group called sanvg consisting of a single SAN disk from a 5.1 environment into a 5.3 environment. Both OSs live on a seperate disks in a 7044-270. I umounted the volume group filesystem, ran the exportvg sanvg command and received the below error.

# exportvg sanvg
0516-764 exportvg: The volume group must be varied off
before exporting.

I then ran the varyoffvg sanvg command and received the below error.

# varyoffvg sanvg
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 sanvg.

How do I go about closing the logical volume?

 

[Gloups]

Did all the filesystems on this volume groupe unmounted ?

 

[khalidaaa]

Though it is not recommended but if you are sure that you have unmounted all the filesystems on that volume group then use this:

varyoffvg -f sanvg

then

exportvg sanvg

Regards,
Khalid

 

[tempest92]

check to see if the lv's are open or closed with -

lsvg -l sanvg

 

[terrywashington]

There was an additional filesystem mounted that was part of the sanvg volume group. I am awaiting the OK from the owner of the box to umount that filesystem. Thanks for the help!

 

[bennotech]

Khalid,
Just out of interest what does the "-f" flag do, thought there was just a "-s" option,
Benno

...it really does get worse than this !!

 

[khalidaaa]

oh bugger

sorry i just got confused that with varyonvg command

Thanks Benno for pointing this out

Sorry again

Regards,
Khalid