VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Migration Guide

Conversion Error Messages
Analysis shows that there is insufficient private space available to convert this volume group
Appendix A78
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.
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:
a. Back up all the data associated with the physical volume.
b. Make a current backup of the LVM headers, for example:
# vgcfgbackup /dev/vg01
c. Close all the logical volumes associated with the volume group and then
deactivate the volume group.