VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Migration Guide

Conversion Error Messages
Appendix A92
• Action
The conversion cannot be completed without rebooting the machine.
If you cannot afford to reboot, then choose abort and try again later.
Message This Volume Group contains one or more logical volumes
with mirrored data. Conversion of this Volume Group
requires that the VxVM package on your system be enabled
for mirroring. This system does not appear to have VxVM
mirroring enabled. Please check your installation and
licensing of VxVM before attempting a conversion of this
Volume Group.
• Description
If an administrator attempts to convert a Mirrored LVM Volume
Group without a valid VxVM Mirror license installed, the conversion
is not allowed.
• Action
Install the Mirror license before attempting the conversion.
Message Device device_name has the following bad blocks:
[1] bad block number (PE# n data block bnum ) alternate
number
Cannot convert LVM Volume Group, vgXX
• 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: