[Veritas-vx] encapsulating rootdisk , but root disk does not have any free slice

[Doug Hughes]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, abhay singh wrote:

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> Dear all,
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> I am facing a problem relating to the encapsulation of the rootdisk. I want to encapsulate my root disk in VxVm 3.1 but i donot have any free slice on that disk., but i can manage with one free slice also. is there any procedure for that .
>

Sorry, you must have 2 free slices to encapsulate rootdisk. That means
unallocated for any other purpose, unassigned, 0 space, etc. It's a
hard requirement, I'm afraid.

I'd recommend tarring up 1-2 of those slices, encapsulating, and then
converting them into veritas volumes instead of hard slices. Chances
are they wouldn't be required in single-user mode anyway, right?
(you really only need 2 in single user)

	Doug