topic Re: Device Busy error in Operating System - HP-UX

Device Busy error

kamal_9 — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:05:24 GMT

Hi Guys
Iam getting the following error during
# vgextend /dev/vg00 /dev/dsk/c2t0d0s2
vgextend: Couldn't install the physical volume "/dev/dsk/c2t0d0s2".
Device busy
Iam using rx4600 server .Iam following the itanium root disk mirroring procedure
i had done
created the partition file with the folllowing entries
3
EFI 500MB
HPUX 100%
HPSP 400MB
idsik -wf /tmp/partitionfile
insf -e
pvcreate -B /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0s2
mkboot -e -l /dev/dsk/c2t1d0

Re: Device Busy error

Robert-Jan Goossens — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:11:04 GMT

Hi Kamal,

Is the idsik a typo ?

US
http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000072837833

Europe
http://www4.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000072837833

Robert-Jan

Re: Device Busy error

Gordon Morrison — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:15:06 GMT

Do you have HP Online JFS installed? If not filesystems cannot be extended while mounted.
Look in /var/adm/sw/products
If there is a subdirectory called AdvJournalFS then Online JFS is installed, otherwise you'll have to unmount the filesystem before you can extend it.

Re: Device Busy error

kamal_9 — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:29:27 GMT

Hi Robert
I used idisk only
Iam not able to open the link ,Can you help me in getting the neeeded information
Thanks
Kamal

Re: Device Busy error

Robert-Jan Goossens — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 04:03:51 GMT

regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: Device Busy error

kamal_9 — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:38:55 GMT

Hi Robert
Thanks
On the same day i tried with the folowing entries .it went thru sucessfully
# vi /tmp/partitionfile
2
EFI 500MB
HPUX 100%
And after mirroring i tested my unplug the pri boot disk system is comming up with the alt disk. I was getting the same error with all my servers .
My server models are rx4600 & rx2xxx each 3 nos