Hi all,
I'm sitting with a weird problem on a clients box where they changed from one storage type to another and get weird disk problems. I investigated and found the following which doesn't seem right:
When doing a vgdisplay -v vg03 I get the follow physical disk display at the bottom : (please note the VG03)
--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name /dev/dsk/c12t0d2
PV Status available
Total PE 269
Free PE 0
Autoswitch On
Now, if I do a pvdisplay /dev/dsk/c12t0d2, I get the following error :
pvdisplay: Cannot open the control file "/dev/vg04/group":
No such file or directory
pvdisplay: Cannot display physical volume "/dev/dsk/c12t0d2".
Note the vg04. This indicates to me that this physical volume was originally connected to a vg04 and somehow the disk is now connected to a vg03?? Could it have been that the previous administrator didn't know what he was doing and, when connecting his new storage, tried to create another volume group to make his life easier??
Somehow this pv is linked to vg04 (there's no such vg on the box now!), but can I rectify the problem without losing the data on the disks???
Thank you very much
gerudman
I'm sitting with a weird problem on a clients box where they changed from one storage type to another and get weird disk problems. I investigated and found the following which doesn't seem right:
When doing a vgdisplay -v vg03 I get the follow physical disk display at the bottom : (please note the VG03)
--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name /dev/dsk/c12t0d2
PV Status available
Total PE 269
Free PE 0
Autoswitch On
Now, if I do a pvdisplay /dev/dsk/c12t0d2, I get the following error :
pvdisplay: Cannot open the control file "/dev/vg04/group":
No such file or directory
pvdisplay: Cannot display physical volume "/dev/dsk/c12t0d2".
Note the vg04. This indicates to me that this physical volume was originally connected to a vg04 and somehow the disk is now connected to a vg03?? Could it have been that the previous administrator didn't know what he was doing and, when connecting his new storage, tried to create another volume group to make his life easier??
Somehow this pv is linked to vg04 (there's no such vg on the box now!), but can I rectify the problem without losing the data on the disks???
Thank you very much
gerudman