[Veritas-vx] VxVM - Encapsulating rootdisk

Kyle O'Connor KOConnor at talussolutions.com
Wed Nov 8 08:48:41 CST 2000


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Kyle O'Connor 
> Sent:	Wednesday, November 08, 2000 06:39
> To:	'support at veritas.com'
> Subject:	VxVM - Encapsulating rootdisk
> 
> I am trying to initialize my Volume Manager.  In doing so, I get the
> following error when trying to encapsulate the rootdisk:
> 
> Encapsulate Boot Disk [y,n,q,?] (default: n) y
> 
> Enter disk name for  [<name>,q,?] (default: rootdisk)
> 
>   It is not possible to encapsulate c0t0d0, for the following reason:
>      <vxvm:vxslicer: ERROR: Not enough free partitions.>
> 
>   The Boot Disk could not be encapsulated.  You can continue, in
>   which case other disks on your system will be initialized, or
>   you can cancel the installation now.
> 
> ============================================================
> The following is a df -k of the disk:
> ============================================================
> Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0     962571   35498  869319     4%    /
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4     962571  397924  506893    44%    /usr
> /proc                      0       0       0     0%    /proc
> fd                         0       0       0     0%    /dev/fd
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5     962571    5698  899119     1%    /var
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6    3009327      16 2949125     1%    /export/home
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7    1987399       9 1927769     1%    /local
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3    2208563   52037 2112355     3%    /opt
> swap                 5607536      56 5607480     1%    /tmp
> 
> =======================================================
> My question is, how much free space is needed to do the encapsulation?
> =======================================================
> 
> 
> Kyle O'Connor
> System Administrator
> Talus Solutions
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