Add additional dump using crashconf

[Marilyn DuChene]

I have 11.31 and am trying to add a second dump vol. My swap and dump are separate devices.

I ran:
lvcreate -C y -r n -L 5120 -n dump2 /dev/vg00
crashconf -a /dev/vg00/dump2
and I get:
/dev/vg00/dump2: error: device is fully occupied by a file system

How to proceed?

[Benoy Daniel]

To enable dump across boot without an immediate reboot, add the dump volume entry in /etc/fstab file:
... Dump defaults 0 0
vi /etc/fstab and add
/dev/vgxx/dumpxx ... dump defaults 0 0
Run /sbin/crashconf â a
This will allow the /etc/fstab file to be read, and all dump devices identified in it will be added to the current list of crash dump devices.
To verify:
Run crashconf -v to see whether the dump is configured.

[Kapil Jha]

do a
dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/vg00/rdump2 bs=1024k

then crashconf -a

and/or

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1001616


BR,
Kapil+

[Marilyn DuChene]

I tried the dd command - and still it gives me the same error. I thought this might work - but no luck.

As for adding an entry in fstab - doesn't seem to matter if I do it on the command line or add it into /etc/fstab first and then try the crashconf -a.

[melvyn burnard]

what does the lvdisplay of that lvol show?

[Marilyn DuChene]

axis1#lvdisplay -v /dev/vg00/Dump2 |more
--- Logical volumes ---
LV Name /dev/vg00/Dump2
VG Name /dev/vg00
LV Permission read/write
LV Status available/syncd
Mirror copies 0
Consistency Recovery MWC
Schedule parallel
LV Size (Mbytes) 5200
Current LE 325
Allocated PE 325
Stripes 0
Stripe Size (Kbytes) 0
Bad block off
Allocation strict/contiguous
IO Timeout (Seconds) default

--- Distribution of logical volume ---
PV Name LE on PV PE on PV
/dev/disk/disk5_p2 325 325

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

>Kapil: dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/vg00/rdump2 bs=1024k

Did you really want /dev/null or /dev/zero?

[Marilyn DuChene]

/dev/zero works like a charm - I guess I didn't overwrite anything with the /dev/null (which seems obvious now...)

#dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vg00/rDump2 bs=1024k
939+0 records in
938+0 records out (and stopped it after a few seconds)

axis1#crashconf -a /dev/vg00/Dump2

checked w/ crashconf -v (and everything looks good) Thanks for the help.

[Dennis Handly]

>Thanks for the help.

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