Description of problem: We have this cmd and a man page for it but when I attempt to use it nothing appears to happen. [root@hayes-01 ~]# vgck hayes [root@hayes-01 ~]# echo $? 0 [root@hayes-01 ~]# lvs -a -o +devices LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert Devices LogVol00 VolGroup00 -wi-ao 64.56G /dev/sda2(0) LogVol01 VolGroup00 -wi-ao 9.81G /dev/sda2(2066) bar foo -wi-a- 7.00T /dev/etherd/e1.1p1(0) bar foo -wi-a- 7.00T /dev/etherd/e1.1p2(0) bar foo -wi-a- 7.00T /dev/etherd/e1.1p3(0) [root@hayes-01 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/etherd/e1.1p2 count=5 5+0 records in 5+0 records out 2560 bytes (2.6 kB) copied, 0.000447 seconds, 5.7 MB/s [root@hayes-01 ~]# pvscan Couldn't find device with uuid 's120lz-OHaL-sxZo-QSud-3VMp-Ko1Q-fCpxxc'. Couldn't find device with uuid 's120lz-OHaL-sxZo-QSud-3VMp-Ko1Q-fCpxxc'. PV /dev/etherd/e1.1p1 VG foo lvm2 [2.96 TB / 0 free] PV unknown device VG foo lvm2 [2.96 TB / 0 free] PV /dev/etherd/e1.1p3 VG foo lvm2 [2.96 TB / 1.87 TB free] PV /dev/sda2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [74.38 GB / 0 free] Total: 4 [2.94 TB] / in use: 4 [2.94 TB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] [root@hayes-01 ~]# vgck foo Couldn't find device with uuid 's120lz-OHaL-sxZo-QSud-3VMp-Ko1Q-fCpxxc'. Couldn't find device with uuid 's120lz-OHaL-sxZo-QSud-3VMp-Ko1Q-fCpxxc'. [root@hayes-01 ~]# echo $? 0 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.18-190.el5 lvm2-2.02.56-8.el5 BUILT: Fri Feb 12 02:40:43 CST 2010 lvm2-cluster-2.02.56-7.el5 BUILT: Mon Feb 8 10:24:29 CST 2010
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 185526 ***