Original question: Hi guru's, I guess this is a pretty simple problem, but I want to know for sure.... I have an E250, with a mirrored bootdisk. Now, the disk which contains the second submirror of /, /usr, /var and swap has died. A metastat shows that this disk needs maintenance. Now, can I just metadetach the submirrors from the defective disk, bring down the system (As an E250 cannot hot-swap disks) replace the disk, bring up the system, and reattach the submirror again (Just like a regular disk replacement procedure ?). I don't know for sure if I need to perform additional steps because it's a root mirror. I can't find anything in the manuals about this. Solution: First of all, drives in a E250 ARE hot swappable. Second, I can handle a rootmirror the same as a regular mirror. This is what I did: - deleted the metadb's on the defective disk - Then I replaced the defective disk with a new one. - copied the vtoc from the first bootdisk to the new one. - gave a metareplace command for all four metadevices It started resyncing, and after about 50 minutes it was ready. That was all. Thanks to Mats Oberg, Trevor McLachlan, Eivind Nordbye and Tobias Kronwitter for their help ! Kind regards, Andy Kannberg System Manager SITE UNIX group LG Philips Displays Eindhoven The Netherlands tel: 040 - 2304678 fax: 040 - 2785405 e-mail: Andy.Kannberg@LGPhilips-Displays.com _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Mar 23 07:38:54 2004
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