Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Does any one have a good process to close Logical Volumes? I need to remove a LV but I need to change the state from open to closed. I tried to rmlv with smitty but no go. This process does not seem to be well documented.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

You need to close the application holding the LV open.
Use the lsof program to find the process holding the LV open.

Use
ps -fp <process id> to see what the process is.
kill <process id>

Run lsof to see if it still in use - If not rmlv <lv>
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Originally posted by: shargus

Is the logical volume associated with a filesystem that is mounted? If so, unmounting the filesystem will close the lvol.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi,

As shargus perviously mentioned, you must first unmount the filesystem.
If there is a process (including your ksh session ;) ) you must figure it out first.

you can try the following:

fsuser -kuc /mount_point; umount -f /mount_point

The first command will kill all the process who are using files on the related mount point.
the second one will force the unmount afterwards, just in case.

Regards,
Angel
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