Remove Volume Group

[grega]

Apologies if my terminology is wrong ... I'm a Solaris bod landed with the task of working on an AIX box. The box originally had 4 disks/2 volume groups. VG1 on disk0, and VG2 on disks 1,2,3. Disks 2 & 3 have been removed and disks 4,5,6,7 have been added (but remain unconfigured - the least of my problems .

The problem we have is that VG2 is now "corrupt" due to the absence of disks 2 & 3.

We thought if we just removed VG2, then disk 1 would be free to re-assign to a new VG - but SMIT reports that it is unable to remove VG2.

Any ideas on how to progress?

Greg.

 

[Morsing]

Try 'reducevg -d VG2 hdisk1'

Cheers
Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[DSMARWAY]

hi,

you cantry exporting the volume group

exportvg VG2

you should then be able to use the disk in new volume group

 

[grega]

Thanks all. Found one of the FAQs helpful .. reducevg -d seems to have done the trick.

Greg.