topic Re: strange problem on vgcreate in Operating System - HP-UX

strange problem on vgcreate

Gian Luca Gobbi — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 06:31:47 GMT

Hello,

can anybody give me hints about this strange vgcreate output? Can you help me to understand the following output?
How to solve it?
Thank you guys!
Gian Luca

# vgcreate /dev/vgprod /dev/dsk/c0t1d0

Warning: Max_PE_per_PV for the volume group (65535) too small for this PV
(369258).
Using only 65535 PEs from this physical volume.
Increased the number of physical extents per physical volume to 65535.
vgcreate: Volume group "/dev/vgprod" could not be created:
File too large

Re: strange problem on vgcreate

Fabio Ettore — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 06:41:26 GMT

Ciao Gian Luca,

check this thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=119111

See also man vgcreate about -s option.

I hope this helps you.

Best regards,
Ettore

Re: strange problem on vgcreate

T G Manikandan — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 06:41:46 GMT

check the document

KBRC00009036

The doc on a ASIAPAC
http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000062909773

Re: strange problem on vgcreate

Robert-Jan Goossens — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 06:45:04 GMT

Hi Gian Luca,

Link to the European site,

http://www4.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&admit=-938907319+1075722191200+28353475&docId=200000062909773

Document description: vgextend: not enough physical extents per physical volume
Document id: KBAN00000076

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: strange problem on vgcreate

T G Manikandan — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 06:45:54 GMT

What is the PE size in the VG.What size volume you are creating.What is the size of your disk.

Re: strange problem on vgcreate

Gian Luca Gobbi — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 08:09:11 GMT

Thank you all!!!
I have just created the volume group by the following command:

# vgcreate -s 8 /dev/vgprod /dev/dsk/c0t1d0

Thanks at all for your useful helps!
Gian Luca