Patrick wrote:
> Seems I have an idea. Using smitty an error message occurs when trying
> to expand a lv. The error message says a disk is not listed in the ODM.
> The identifier describes a disk that was removed from the system some
> weeks ago. The disk was removed using unmirrorvg. Seems that not all
> entries of this disk were removed from the ODM. I added the disk again
> and strange things appear:
>
> >lspv
> hdisk1 002091003ec20cd7 rootvg
> hdisk0 00209100668b15dc rootvg
>
> >lsvg -p rootvg
> rootvg:
> PV_NAME PV STATE TOTAL PPs FREE PPs FREE
> DISTRIBUTION
> hdisk1 active 2170 1883
> 369..380..266..434..434
>
> >reducevg rootvg hdisk0
> reducevg -d rootvg hdisk0
> 0516-022 lquerypv: Illegal parameter or structure value.
> 0516-022 lquerypv: Illegal parameter or structure value.
> 0516-884 reducevg: Unable to remove physical volume hdisk0.
>
> >extendvg rootvg hdisk0
> 0516-696 extendvg: Physical Volume hdisk0 belongs to another volume group.
>
> This causes all the trouble. How can I remove the faulty entries from
> the ODM?
did you try rmdev -dl hdisk0
This will remove the disk from ODM.