Hello

I have the following situation:

- HPUX 11.00
- Two disks in vg00 (2 x 9GB mirrored)
- Two disks in vgDB (2 x 17GB unmirrored)

The two 17 GB (unmirrored) disks should be removed with two 73GB disks (mirrored). There is no free slot in the machine and no external disk device.

How is the fastest way to do this? We can do a backup and restore vgDB but it works 7 hours (please do not laugh).

So my idea is to split the vg00 mirror, put one 9GB disk out, put the 73 GB disk in, copy the data from the 17GB's, put out the 17GB's, put the two 73 GB's and the 9GB in the machine and create both mirrors (vg00 and vgDB). Downtime is only the copy of 34 GB.

Now the problem:
- splitting the mirror vg00 --> ok
- pvcreate /dev/rdsk/c2t2d0 --> ok
- vgcreate -s 32 -e 3000 /dev/vgDB1 /dev/dsk/c2t2d0 --> ok
- but "vgdisplay vgDB1" shows:

Max PE per PV 3000
PE Size (Mbytes) 32
Total PE 271

So the new 73 GB has only the same size than the further 9GB from vg00???

Christian