VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Troubleshooting Guide

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How This Guide Is Organized
This guide is organized as follows:
• “Recovery from Hardware Failure” on page 11
• “Recovery from Failure of Instant Snapshot Operations” on page 35
• “Recovery from Boot Disk Failure” on page 45
• “Logging Commands and Transactions” on page 53
• “Backing Up and Restoring Disk Group Configurations” on page 59
• “Error Messages” on page 65
Refer to the Release Notes for information about the other documentation that is provided
with this product.
Typographic Conventions
Table 1 describes the typographic conventions used in this document.
Table 1 Typographic Conventions
Typeface Usage Examples
monospace Computer output, files, directories,
software elements such as command
options, function names, and
parameters
Read tunables from the
/etc/vx/tunefstab file.
See the ls (1) manpage for more
information.
italic New terms, book titles, emphasis,
variables replaced with a name or
value
See the VERITAS 4.1 Installation
Guide for details.
% C shell prompt Not applicable
$ Bourne/Korn shell prompt Not applicable
# Superuser prompt (all shells) Not applicable
\ Continued input on the following line;
you do not type this character
# mount -F vxfs \
/h/filesys
[ ] In command synopsis, brackets
indicates an optional argument.
ls [ -a ]