Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Troubleshooting Guide Guide (September 2006)

10 Recovery from hardware failure

Listing unstartable volumes

An unstartable volume can be incorrectly configured or have other errors or conditions

that prevent it from being started. To display unstartable volumes, use the

vxinfo

command. This displays information about the accessibility and usability of volumes:

# vxinfo [-g diskgroup] [volume ...]

The following example output shows one volume, mkting, as being unstartable:

home fsgen Started

mkting fsgen Unstartable

src fsgen Started

rootvol root Started

swapvol swap Started

Displaying volume and plex states

To display detailed information about the configuration of a volume including its state and

the states of its plexes, use the following form of the

vxprint command:

# vxprint [-g diskgroup] -hvt [volume ...]

The following example shows a disabled volume, vol, which has two clean plexes, vol-

01 and vol-02, each with a single subdisk:

# vxprint -g mydg -hvt vol

Disk group: mydg

V NAME RVG/VSET/CO KSTATE STATE LENGTH READPOL PREFPLEX UTYPE

PL NAME VOLUME KSTATE STATE LENGTH LAYOUT NCOL/WID MODE

SD NAME PLEX DISK DISKOFFSLENGTH [COL/]OFF DEVICE MODE

SV NAME PLEX VOLNAME NVOLLAYRLENGTH [COL/]OFF AM/NM MODE

SC NAME PLEX CACHE DISKOFFSLENGTH [COL/]OFF DEVICE MODE

DC NAME PARENTVOL LOGVOL

SP NAME SNAPVOL DCO

v vol - DISABLED ACTIVE 212880 SELECT - fsgen

pl vol-01 vol DISABLED CLEAN 212880 CONCAT - RW

sd mydg11-01 vol-01 mydg11 0 212880 0 c1t0d0 ENA

pl vol-02 vol DISABLED CLEAN 212880 CONCAT - RW

sd mydg12-01 vol-02 mydg12 0 212880 0 c1t1d0 ENA

See the “Creating and Administering Plexes” and “Administering Volumes” chapters in

the Veritas Volume Manager Administrator’s Guide for a description of the possible plex

and volume states.