Try vmcp detach 1234 (if your dasd is 1234). It "physically" detaches the device from the guest, so vgscan should lose track of it.
On May 30, 2017 15:48, "Jorge Fábregas" <jorge.fabre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We have a situation with two SLES11 servers. We had to migrate the > underlying PVs used for the swap logical volume (we used pvmove to move > from DASD to FCP LUNs) and then we removed the DASD PVs from the volume > group (followed by pvremove on them to wipe LVM metadata). After that I > called my z/VM admin and asked him to remove the corresponding DASD > devices. He did but I still have the device files associated with them > (/dev/dasd*)... > > The problem is that, whenever I type any LVM command, the command gets > stucked (doesn't return the prompt). I guess vgscan is getting stuck > reading these non existing DASD device files. I could fix this by > excluding these devices (LVM filter) or by rebooting but I'm wondering > if there's a a way to remove these DASD device files dynamically? > > For regualr SCSI devices one usually performs: > > echo offline > /sys/block/$DISK/device/state > echo 1 > /sys/block/$DISK/device/delete > > ...but I don't see "state" nor "delete" for /sys/block/dasd*/device/* > and Google didn't help that much. > > Thanks in advance! > > Regards, > Jorge > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
