Creating a 1MB extend volume group

[Donald C Nelson]

I have a customer who needs to create a four-17gb disk volume groups of 1MB extents. I have never create a 1mb extend on a VG before so when I use the command:

vgcreate -s 1 /dev/vg00 /dev/dsk/c?t?d? /dev/dsk/c?t?d?

...Creating volume group vg01...
vgcreate: Volume group "/dev/vg01" could not be created:
VGRA for the disk is too big for the specified parameters. Increase the
extent size or decrease max_PVs/max_LVs and try again.

I can't increase the extent sizes nor decrease the max_PV's/max LV's. Is there a way that I can increase the max number of physical extents (-e) in the command.

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom Donald,

try the -p ## parameter

-p 10

This forever until vgcreate limits you to 10 physical volumes so pick a number that you can live with for a very long time.

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[Donald C Nelson]

Thanks Steven

Don