Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Troubleshooting Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, May 2008

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Understanding messages
Caution: Be careful when using the -f option. It can cause the same disk
group to be imported twice from different sets of disks. This can cause the
disk group configuration to become inconsistent.
As using the
-f option to force the import of an incomplete disk group
counts as a successful import, an incomplete disk group may be imported
subsequently without this option being specified. This may not be what you
expect.
These operations can also be performed using the
vxdiskadm utility. To
deport a disk group using
vxdiskadm, select menu item 8 (Remove access
to (deport) a disk group). To import a disk group, select item 7
(Enable access to (import) a disk group). The
vxdiskadm
import operation checks for host import locks and prompts to see if you
want to clear any that are found. It also starts volumes in the disk group.
V-5-1-663
VxVM vxconfigd WARNING V-5-1-663 Group group: Duplicate virtual
device number(s):
Volume volume remapped from major,minor to major,minor ...
■ Description: The configuration of the named disk group includes conflicting
device numbers. A disk group configuration lists the recommended device
number to use for each volume in the disk group. If two volumes in two disk
groups happen to list the same device number, then one of the volumes
must use an alternate device number. This is called device number
remapping. Remapping is a temporary change to a volume. If the other disk
group is deported and the system is rebooted, then the volume that was
remapped may no longer be remapped. Also, volumes that are remapped
once are not guaranteed to be remapped to the same device number in
further reboots.
■ Action: Use the vxdg reminor command to renumber all volumes in the
offending disk group permanently. See the vxdg(1M) manual page for more
information.