HPUX 11 upgrade disk problem

[Jim Adamson]

Hi,
I have just upgraded a C110 workstation from 10.20 to 32bit 11.00. The host has 2 disks, one 2GB and one 18GB. I installed HPUX11 fresh on the 2GB root disk.

My problem is how to recover the filesystems on the second disk. The disk shows as being 'unused' in SAM. I was under the impression that a full backup had been made but now know thats not the case! Is there any way to enable this disk in LVM (or without LVM) whilst maintaining the file systems on the disk.

Thanks
Jim

[Vincent Farrugia]

Hello,

Just a wild guess: Try vgscan -v. Do a man vgscan for more information.

HTH,
Vince

[Frederic Sevestre · Accepted solution]

Hi,
Was the second disk used in vg00 before the upgrade ?
If not you should try to import it :

# mkdir /dev/vg01
# mknod /dev/vg01/group c 64 0x010000
# vgimport -v vg01 /dev/dsk/cxtydz
(where cxtydz is your 18Go disk address)
Regards

[Helen French]

hey,

if the 18GB harddisk was not a part of the root VG, then do a 'vgscan'. This will check all disks in the system for VG information.
Then do a 'vgimport' and do a 'vgchange -a y' to enable the VG.
Then try 'vgdisplay -v' to find out all LVs in that VG and you can mount it.

Hopes this helps ...

Shiju

[Jim Adamson]

Thanks frederic, shiju & vincent. Thats it sorted.
Jim