OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4
Storage people had unpresented a couple of disks previously exported to the system (things that… sometimes happens). Well, there is no problem with this because that disk were empty and data was migrated to other PV's. The problem is that the devices were removed without the previously remove process in the system.
How can i delete that missing disks from whole system?
multipath -ll:
mpath10 (350002ac01bde0e96)
[size=50 GB][features="0"][hwhandler="0"]
\_ round-robin 0 [enabled]
\_ 0:0:1:2 sdf 8:80 [failed][faulty]
\_ 0:0:2:2 sdk 8:160 [failed][faulty]
\_ 1:0:0:2 sdp 8:240 [failed][faulty]
\_ 1:0:2:2 sdx 65:112 [failed][faulty]
pvdisplay:
/dev/dm-9: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 53687025664: Input/output error
/dev/dm-9: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 53687083008: Input/output error
/dev/dm-9: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/dm-9: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 4096: Input/output error
/dev/dm-9: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
Thanks in advance and, please, excuse me for my english
Best Answer
I don't know if this holds true for RHEL4, as I've only tried it on newer OS:es, but
To delete the mpath device;
to remove a block device from the linux OS, run a
When the mpath device is gone, pvdisplay will no longer complain if that's where the pv is.