VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Migration Guide (September 2004)

Appendix A
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A 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
• Analysis shows that there is insufficient private space available to convert this volume 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.
Analysis shows that there is insufficient private space available to
convert this volume group
• Description
The error message indicates the maximum amount of records that can be stored in the private space, and
how many records are needed to convert this particular volume group.
• Action
You can reduce the number of records needed by reducing the number of logical volumes in volume group
by combining some of the logical volumes together.