Thanks for the heads up. The addresses of the disks will be different and we do not have VM. Will changing the references to by-path allow me to change then the UCB addresses to the correct new ones? The disk will be completely mirrored over to a new one on a different box.
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:46 AM, David Boyes <[email protected]> wrote: > > What would I need to change to make sure this works. > > First thing, download and run www.sinenomine.net/download/sane-dasd-updateto > change the by-id references you have in your /etc/fstab to by-path BEFORE > you lose the old disks. The way things are now, your system is irrevocably > linked to the physical disk ids it's installed on, and it WILL NOT BOOT if > you copy it to another disk. If you can, get them to define the disks at > the same addresses in the new LPAR. Then you can shut down the Linux system > completely, and use ADRDSSU or DDR (if you have VM) to copy the disks over. > > FSTAB has entries but they seem to be only the last two digits of the 4 > character hex UCB. For example: > > /dev/disk/by-id/ccw-HTC.55000000010957.4c14.ee-part1 > Where the UCB is E4EE. > > Second I know I can use vgexport for the lvm, but would that be all? > > Lastly how can I check if hyper-pav is enabled? > > Thanks! > > -Paul > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
