From: Holger.VanKoll@SWISSCOM.COM
Date: Fri Sep 20 2002 - 09:52:28 EDT
he said the vg is mirrored.
if this is true for the ps too, no problem. unmirrorvg takes care of all
lv, including ps.
if not, he has to mirror it first. no big deal imho.
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> Except you can't do that if hdisk0 has active paging space on it.
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> I need to replace all four internal disks in my 7025-6F1. I
> have two volume groups with two disks a piece. Both volume
> groups are mirrored.
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> My question is, are these disks hot-swappable? If so, all I
> would need to do to replace a disk would be, say:
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> - unmirrorvg rootvg hdisk0
> - reducevg rootvg hdisk0
> - rmdev -l hdisk0 -d
> - replace the disk with the new one
> - cfgmgr
> - extendvg -f rootvg hdisk0
> - mirrorvg rootvg
> - bosboot -a -d /dev/hdisk0
> - bootlist -m normal hdisk0 hdisk1
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> Right?
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> The reason I ask is that I've just finished trying to do the
> exact same thing with six 7044-270's and had atrocious luck
> with it. Just one
> example: after having shut one of them down the system was
> unable to boot and in the bootlist under SMS there wasn't a
> single harddisk to chose from, even though I was expecting to see two.
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