Here's what I see when I do the PVSCAN pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/dasdc1" of VG "oraclevg" [2.29 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/dasdd1" of VG "oraclevg" [2.29 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/dasde1" of VG "oraclevg" [2.29 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/dasdh1" of VG "oraclevg" [6.87 GB / 24 MB free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/dasdk1" of VG "oraclevg" [6.87 GB / 6.87 GB free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/dasdl1" of VG "oraclevg" [6.87 GB / 6.87 GB free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/dasdm1" is in no VG [6.88 GB] pvscan -- total: 7 [34.39 GB] / in use: 6 [27.51 GB] / in no VG: 1 [6.88 GB]
-----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 12:50 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: LVM Question >>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:46 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .gov>, "Walters, Gene P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did a pvscan, and it shows that I have 4 active and 3 inactive PV's > that belong to volume group oraclevg. My question is, how does a PV > become inactive, and is it really in my VG if it says inactive? Can you show the actual output from that? I can't say I've seen it before. And yes, the PVs are in the VG, even if they're marked inactive. Just try taking them offline and doing a vgscan. Should be ugly. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
