Hello Friends,

This is my 1st query in any of forum. Very New to VxVM. I have spend 2-3 hours to resolve this but no luck. Hope you guys will help me.

I have installed a Fresh Veritas Volume Manager and yes 1st time also

After creating Disk group and Volume. I am not able to create a vxfs in RHEL 5.3_64

Below is the o/p

[root@mhs-app500-aa ~]# vxdisk list
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS
hda auto:none - - online invalid
sda auto:cdsdisk dg_OBIE01 dg_OBIE online
sdb auto:cdsdisk dg_OBIE02 dg_OBIE online
sdc auto:cdsdisk dg_OBIE03 dg_OBIE online
sdd auto:cdsdisk dg_OBIE04 dg_OBIE online

[root@mhs-app500-aa ~]# mkfs -F vxfs /dev/vx/rdsk/dg_OBIE/OBIE
mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
mkfs.ext2: invalid blocks count - /dev/vx/rdsk/dg_OBIE/OBIE

Please reply...
Thanks

You cannot create a filesystem on a diskgroup, first create a volume.

Look at the manpage for vxassist to do this.

Helpfull will be sending the output of

thanks for replying...

[root@mhs-app500-aa Desktop]# vxprint -ht
Disk group: dg_OBIE

DG NAME NCONFIG NLOG MINORS GROUP-ID
ST NAME STATE DM_CNT SPARE_CNT APPVOL_CNT
DM NAME DEVICE TYPE PRIVLEN PUBLEN STATE
RV NAME RLINK_CNT KSTATE STATE PRIMARY DATAVOLS SRL
RL NAME RVG KSTATE STATE REM_HOST REM_DG REM_RLNK
CO NAME CACHEVOL KSTATE STATE
VT NAME RVG KSTATE STATE NVOLUME
V NAME RVG/VSET/CO KSTATE STATE LENGTH READPOL PREFPLEX UTYPE
PL NAME VOLUME KSTATE STATE LENGTH LAYOUT NCOL/WID MODE
SD NAME PLEX DISK DISKOFFS LENGTH [COL/]OFF DEVICE MODE
SV NAME PLEX VOLNAME NVOLLAYR LENGTH [COL/]OFF AM/NM MODE
SC NAME PLEX CACHE DISKOFFS LENGTH [COL/]OFF DEVICE MODE
DC NAME PARENTVOL LOGVOL
SP NAME SNAPVOL DCO
EX NAME ASSOC VC PERMS MODE STATE
SR NAME KSTATE

dg dg_OBIE default default 9000 1327086874.21.mhs-app500-aa

dm dg_OBIE01 sda auto 65536 83697104 NOHOTUSE
dm dg_OBIE02 sdb auto 65536 62732288 NOHOTUSE
dm dg_OBIE03 sdc auto 65536 41767456 NOHOTUSE
dm dg_OBIE04 sdd auto 65536 20802640 NOHOTUSE

v OBIE - ENABLED ACTIVE 83886080 SELECT - fsgen
pl OBIE-01 OBIE ENABLED ACTIVE 83886080 CONCAT - RW
sd dg_OBIE01-01 OBIE-01 dg_OBIE01 0 83697104 0 sda ENA
sd dg_OBIE02-01 OBIE-01 dg_OBIE02 0 188976 83697104 sdb ENA


Please ignore "NOHOTUSE". I didn't use the spare disk.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1Hey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am sorry i asked silly question... and i tried to run man pages also, but error was

[root@mhs-app500-aa data]# man vxassist
No manual entry for vxassist

I used -t instead of -F ... now its working...


[root@mhs-app500-aa Desktop]# mount -t vxfs /dev/vx/dsk/dg_OBIE/OBIE /data

[root@mhs-app500-aa Desktop]# cd /data
[root@mhs-app500-aa data]# ls
lost+found


[root@mhs-app500-aa data]# df -h /data
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vx/dsk/dg_OBIE/OBIE
40G 80M 38G 1% /data

Is that fine no??. I believe i have done ??????

That's fine good luck.

Thanks for your support...