From: Jonathan Williams (jonathw@shubertorg.com)
Date: Mon Nov 25 2002 - 15:55:12 EST
Ok...simple enough answer.
I neglected to mention that I was using the -e option (i.e. dsfmgr -e dsk6
dsk34)
Bluejay Adametz suggested using the -m (move) option instead. I tried that, and
it worked like a charm. Apparently the -m doesn't care what you move the device
to, and just creates the special files for you.
Jonathan Williams
Unix Systems Administrator
The Shubert Organization, Inc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Williams" <jonathw@shubertorg.com>
To: <tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 3:37 PM
Subject: creating device special files
> We just got a brand new system in (ES45 running 5.1a), and going through the
> configuration process, I came across a question. All of our systems have
access
> to all of the disks out on the SAN. All of the systems see these disks as
> different names (one system might call a given disk "dsk10", while another
> system will call it "dsk23". I want to have this new system match device
> numbers with one of the other servers. I found the nice "dsfmgr" command to
be
> capable of renaming a disk (swapping out the device special files for a disk).
> The thing that I've run into though, is that it will only work if both sets of
> device special files exist on the system (so renaming dsk5 to dsk4 works
great,
> but if I want to rename dsk4 to dsk47 (and there are no dsk47 device special
> files), it will not work.
>
> So basically I'm wondering how I can create new device special files for
> non-existent disks? Is this possible? This system sees disks 0 through
dsk33.
> I need some of the disks to be renamed with numbers higher than 33 so that it
> matches the other system (for example, dsk6 needs to be dsk34). Any help
would
> be wonderful. TIA
>
> Jonathan Williams
> Unix Systems Administrator
> The Shubert Organization, Inc.
>
>
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