VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Troubleshooting Guide (September 2004)

Recovery from Boot Disk Failure
Recovery by Reinstallation
Chapter 2
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The final step is to start up hot-relocation, if this is required.
Start up Hot-Relocation
To start up the hot-relocation service, either reboot the system or manually start the
relocation watch daemon, vxrelocd (this also starts the vxnotify process).
NOTE Hot-relocation should only be started when you are sure that it will not interfere with
other reconfiguration procedures.
See “Modifying the Behavior of Hot-Relocation” in the “Administering Hot-Relocation”
chapter of the VERITAS Volume Manager Administrator’s Guide for more information
about running vxrelocd and about modifying its behavior.
To determine if hot-relocation has been started, use the following command to search for
its entry in the process table:
# ps -ef | grep vxrelocd | grep -v grep