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I am working on a system using AIX 5.3
I need to execute a script that leads to too many phantom disk entries.
Thus, I wrote a batch file to delete these phantom disk entries
i=0
limit=500
while ((i<$limit))&&((i=$i+1))
do
rmdev -dl hdisk$i
done
The problem now is that I cant delete these entries using command
rmdev. The error I see is
# rmdev -dl hdisk39
Method error (/etc/methods/ucfgdevice):
0514-062 Cannot perform the requested function because the
specified device is busy.

Here is the list of disks I need to delete:
# lspv
hdisk0 000c7bca3abf3bb6 rootvg
active
hdisk6 000c7bcae1b8aac7 None
hdisk7 000c7bcae1b8ab33 None
hdisk8 none None

hdisk9 none None

hdisk10 000c7bcae1b8ab9e None
hdisk11 000c7bcae1b90451 None
hdisk12 000c7bcae1b904bd None
hdisk13 000c7bcae1b90529 None
hdisk14 000c7bcae1b95dac None
hdisk15 000c7bcae1b95e18 None
hdisk16 000c7bcae1b95e84 None
hdisk17 000c7bcae1b9be93 None
hdisk18 000c7bcae1b9bf0b None
hdisk19 000c7bcae1b9bf82 None
hdisk20 none None

hdisk21 none None

hdisk22 none None

hdisk23 none None

hdisk24 none None

hdisk25 none None

hdisk26 none None

hdisk27 none None

hdisk28 none None

hdisk29 none None

hdisk31 none None

hdisk32 none None

hdisk5 none None

hdisk30 none None

hdisk37 none None

hdisk38 none None

hdisk39 none None

tangy wrote:
> I am working on a system using AIX 5.3
> I need to execute a script that leads to too many phantom disk entries.
> Thus, I wrote a batch file to delete these phantom disk entries
> i=0
> limit=500
> while ((i<$limit))&&((i=$i+1))
> do
> rmdev -dl hdisk$i
> done
> The problem now is that I cant delete these entries using command
> rmdev. The error I see is
> # rmdev -dl hdisk39
> Method error (/etc/methods/ucfgdevice):
> 0514-062 Cannot perform the requested function because the
> specified device is busy.
>

Not sure why it won't remove hdisk39, since it is in the lspv, but
wouldn't the following be safer?

for i in `lspv |grep None|cut -f 1 -d " "`
do
rmdev -dl $i
done


> Here is the list of disks I need to delete:
> # lspv
> hdisk0 000c7bca3abf3bb6 rootvg
> active
> hdisk6 000c7bcae1b8aac7 None
> hdisk7 000c7bcae1b8ab33 None
> hdisk8 none None
>
..
..
..
>
> hdisk39 none None

hdisk39? with an hdisk# that high, i would assume there may be SAN on
this server? and hdisk39 may be associated with a SAN device
(vpath,hdiskpower, etc)....

On 19 Jun 2006 06:15:17 -0700, takarov2003@yahoo.com wrote:

>tangy wrote:
>> I am working on a system using AIX 5.3
>> I need to execute a script that leads to too many phantom disk entries.
>> Thus, I wrote a batch file to delete these phantom disk entries
>> i=0
>> limit=500
>> while ((i<$limit))&&((i=$i+1))
>> do
>> rmdev -dl hdisk$i
>> done
>> The problem now is that I cant delete these entries using command
>> rmdev. The error I see is
>> # rmdev -dl hdisk39
>> Method error (/etc/methods/ucfgdevice):
>> 0514-062 Cannot perform the requested function because the
>> specified device is busy.
>>
>
>Not sure why it won't remove hdisk39, since it is in the lspv, but
>wouldn't the following be safer?
>
>for i in `lspv |grep None|cut -f 1 -d " "`
>do
>rmdev -dl $i
>done
>
>
>> Here is the list of disks I need to delete:
>> # lspv
>> hdisk0 000c7bca3abf3bb6 rootvg
>> active
>> hdisk6 000c7bcae1b8aac7 None
>> hdisk7 000c7bcae1b8ab33 None
>> hdisk8 none None
>>
>.
>.
>.
>>
>> hdisk39 none None