Typically EXDEV (a cross-device link) error is because you've got more than one copy of the volume, on different partitions on the same server.
vos examine root.cell; if you see afs-vmc.psc.edu already has a site on a different partition other than vicepga, well, that'd be the issue. How many sites do you have? On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 4:00 PM Susan Litzinger <[email protected]> wrote: > We are updating our very old AFS servers and chose to create new, updated > systems then migrate all the volumes over and eventually just turn the > older ones off. > > We've moved everything but the root.cell volumes. We have one RW > root.cell on an older server and would like to have a RW root.cell on a new > server before turning the older one off. My co-worker gave this a try and > it allowed her to run 'vos addsite' but did not allow her to 'vos release' > the new RW root.cell. She got this error: > > root@afs-vmc 2019-March]# vos addsite afs-vmc.psc.edu /vicepga > root.cell -localauth > Added replication site afs-vmc.psc.edu /vicepga for volume root.cell > [root@afs-vmc 2019-March]# vos release root.cell -localauth > Failed to clone the volume 537176384 > : Invalid cross-device link > Error in vos release command. > Clone volume is not in the same partition as the read-write volume. >  > Has anyone else tried this type of upgrade? Are there any docs specific > to this? > > Thanks in advance, > > Susan Litzinger > PSC > -- Daria Phoebe Brashear AuriStor, Inc dariaphoebe.com
