https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/lvm-question/m-p/4430644#M355698 Hi,<BR />I'm intended to test vgimport functionality of lvm.For which i ran vgexport command and saved the vgname.mapfile name in a different location.the volume group is vg01. The root disk is still fine. In order for testing vgimport...what steps i have to do ...it could be reinstallation of a root disk ..but is there any other way with out the reinstall.<BR />Thank You Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:27:58 GMT navin 2009-06-01T19:27:58Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/lvm-question/m-p/4430644#M355698 Hi,<BR />I'm intended to test vgimport functionality of lvm.For which i ran vgexport command and saved the vgname.mapfile name in a different location.the volume group is vg01. The root disk is still fine. In order for testing vgimport...what steps i have to do ...it could be reinstallation of a root disk ..but is there any other way with out the reinstall.<BR />Thank You Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:27:58 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/lvm-question/m-p/4430644#M355698 navin 2009-06-01T19:27:58Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/lvm-question/m-p/4430645#M355699 If your purpose is to relocate the volumes under vg01 to a different server, all you need to do is to re-zone the SAN volumes (assuming vg01 is on SAN) to the new server, copy the mapfile to the new server and run <BR /><BR />vgimport -m mapfilenamehere vg01<BR /><BR /> Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:32:00 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/lvm-question/m-p/4430645#M355699 Mel Burslan 2009-06-01T19:32:00Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/lvm-question/m-p/4430646#M355700 You could use the -p (preview) option to verify the map file without actually importing. Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:40:10 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/lvm-question/m-p/4430646#M355700 kevin_m 2009-06-03T12:40:10Z