On 3/6/2019 3:56 PM, Susan Litzinger 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 > <http://afs-vmc.psc.edu> /vicepga > root.cell -localauth > Added replication site afs-vmc.psc.edu <http://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.
Susan, The problem with root.cell is on velma. The RW and RO must be on the same partition. Jeffrey Altman
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