moving disk to disk in hpux11.31

[ChewSP]

hello,

i am running hpux 11.31 and i have detected 2 disk in the OS. /dev/disk/disk10 and /dev/disk/disk20. i would like to move or exchange the disk20 to disk11. can this be done? i know this can be done in tru64 using the command dsfmgr -m but i'am not sure if this could be done in hpux v11.31.

thank you

[whiz_kid]

chewsp, man - io_redirect_dsf

[Vishwas Pai]

Install the latest io_redirect_dsf , mksf and ioinit patches before using "io_redirect_dsf" to swap names.

--vishwas.

[Hein van den Heuvel]

I used to change those names under Tru64, but never for any really good reason.
It was kinda handy when running 'iostat' or 'monitor' to have them grouped (in my case) by the disks holding a live DB, the backups, the redo and so on, but really I had not bussiness mucking with with.

More often than not my drives were invisible to the applications anyway
- Through LVM (LSM for Tru54)
- behind (soft)Links.
- behind moutn points.

So while io_redirect_dsf can do this for you, I'm curious as to why you would bother?! What problem are you really trying to solve? Is there perhaps a more straightforward solution?

fwiw,
Hein.