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AIX Version 4.3 Problem Solving Guide and Reference

Appendix D. Recovering Volume Groups

When the ODM entries for a volume group are corrupted, you may notice one of the following symptoms:

If the Object Data Manager (ODM) entries for a volume group are corrupted, use the shell script to reinitialize the ODM entries for the rootvg volume group. By modifying the shell script, you can also reinitialize a user-defined volume group. Note that it is not necessary to reboot after running this script.

See the following to recover volume groups:

Indicate the process ID (PID) of the shell script, creating a unique file name. If after running the script you can successfully perform the commands that had previously failed, remove the Cu*.$$ files in /etc/objrepos (where $$ is a PID).

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