Re-Order Device Number Instances in HP-UX 11.31

[Alzhy]

I cloned an OS via the "dd" approach.

On "resettlement" of the OS, the device numbers are not in the order one would get if it were a fresh install.

For instance, my tape drives  start at tape4 through tape9 instead of starting with tape0. Ditto with my local SAS drives.

What is the best way to have the OS renumber the devices?

Sorry, been Linux-centric these past few months...

[Stephan.]

Just curios, what speaks against using Ignite/UX for cloning?

Check the man page 'ionit' - this can reassign all the numbers.

[Alzhy]

What speaks agains Ignite-UX?

The situation good sir.  Server is in a colocation, we have access to no other POS (piece of server or PC or Storage).It's iLO has no network, only serial.  The Server was running an old version of HP-UX 11.31 - so the only known solution which worked for me since 11.0 was to do either a good old dd-copy or dump/restore of the partitions.

The Solution I googled (and actually finaly remembered):

ioinit -rC <class>

then simply clean up the extraneous device entries in /dev

do the needful LVM wise if class is disk and ye are using LVM on them

Case closed.