On Jun 6, 7:39 am, Huub <"v.niekerk at hccnet.nl"> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On an RS/6000 Enterprise Server H50 running 5.3, I'm trying to extend
> the rootvg to hdisk1. However, "extendvg rootvg hdisk1" gives the
> message that "the physical volume hdisk1 appears to belong to another
> volumegroup". "lsvg" only shows hdisk0 belonging to rootvg. "lspv
> hdisk1" gives "Physical volume hdisk1 is not assigned to a volume
> group". How can I see what's going on here (and solve it)? (I'm very new
> to AIX (not to Unix) and learning..)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Huub


You are just be informed that hdisk1 has been used previously.
... appears ...

In case you know what you are doing just go on.

hth
Hajo