Veritas 4.1 Installation Guide (HP-UX 11i v3, February 2007)

• Device device_name has the following bad blocks... Cannot convert LVM Volume Group
— Description
Unlike LVM, VxVM does not support bad block revectoring at the physical volume
level. If there appear to be any valid bad blocks in the bad block directory of any disk
used in an LVM volume group, the group cannot be converted.
— Action
You have the following choices:
◦ Place a hardware call to have the disk replaced or have the hardware engineer use
the diagnostics (if applicable for this disk type) to re-vector the block. Then clear
the BBDIR as described below.
◦ If the errors were transient, or after the disk has been replaced, clear the BBDIR as
follows:
– Back up all the data associated with the physical volume.
– Make a current backup of the LVM headers, for example:
# vgcfgbackup </dev/vg01>
– Close all the logical volumes associated with the volume group and then
deactivate the volume group.
– Create a dummy link to the raw device, for example:
# ln </dev/rdsk/c0t0d0> </dev/rdsk/temp>
– Destroy the LVM headers using pvcreate -f on the dummy link, for
example:
# pvcreate -f </dev/rdsk/temp>
– Remove the dummy link to the raw device, for example:
# rm /dev/rdsk/temp
– Restore the headers from the lvmconf backup, for example:
# vgcfgrestore -n </dev/vg01> </dev/rdsk/c0t0d0>
– Activate the volume group and integrity check the data or recover from backup.
• The conversion process was unable to deactivate the volume group vol_grp_name
— Description
This indicates that the conversion process cannot deactivate the volume group.
— Action
The conversion cannot be completed without rebooting the machine. If you cannot
afford to reboot, then choose abort and try again later.
• This Volume Group contains one or more logical volumes with mirrored data
— Description
If an administrator attempts to convert a Mirrored LVM Volume Group without a valid
VxVM license installed, the conversion is not allowed.
— Action
Install the required license before attempting the conversion.
LVM Volume Groups to VxVM Conversion Error Messages 73