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Conversion Error Messages

This appendix lists the error messages that you may encounter when conversting LVM

volume groups to VxVM disk groups and volumes. For each error message, a description

is provided of the problem, and the action that you can take to troubleshoot it.

Error messages that you may encounter during conversion include the following:

◆ Analysis indicates that this volume group cannot be converted because not all of the

disks and/or volumes in the LVM volume group are currently accessible

◆ Analysisshows thatthereis insufﬁcientprivate space availableto convertthisvolume

group

◆ Device device_name has the following bad blocks... Cannot convert LVM Volume

Group

◆ The conversion process was unable to deactivate the volume group vol_grp_name

◆ This Volume Group contains one or more logical volumes with mirrored data

◆ Too many LVM Volumes to convert in this LVM Volume Group

◆ vgchange: Couldn't deactivate volume group /dev/vol_grp

◆ vxdiskadm or vxvmconvert is already being run and these programs cannot run

concurrently

Analysis indicates that this volume group cannot be converted

because not all of the disks and/or volumes in the LVM volume group

are currently accessible

◆ Description

For successful conversion, all physical volumes in a volume group must be on-line,

and all logical volumes must be active and accessible.

◆ Action

Make sure the physical volumes in a volume group are on-line and the logical

volumes are active and not in use.