Breakout of mirror disk from Veritas for dual boot
Hello,
Our system was built using 2 system disks that were mirrored under Veritas 3.5. I want to remove one disk and make a complete copy of the first disk on it. Boot it and remove old compiliers and old versions of Java and applications, then install new compiliers, Java and applications for testing. If all goes well with Oracle 10.2, I'll make it the primary boot disk and use the old one to mirror it. If not I can boot the old and allow users the use of the Oracle instances while I solve the outstanding issues with the new disk and Oracle version.
I broke one out with mirror->remove. I wanted to make a copy of the first disk on to the second dynamic disk using snap-creat, snap->start, snap-end.
It didn't work, read the notes and discovered that it doesn't work with anything other than VXFS, we are using UFS. I noticed afterward the newly removed disk made with snap volume didn't contain a file system. So I tried making a UFS filesystem in Veritas Enterprise Administrator on one of the partitions and mounting it. It made a filesystem and It mounts, but I'm unable to create any files on it. DD copies of one disk partition to another fail as well. I haven't bothered with tar since I changed directory and tested it with Vi which can't write any files either. After unmounting it and looking underdisks-volume view it shows no filesystem.
Also the root partition shows a layout type of root ,But I can't find a way to specify that with create layout. It appears I need to delete it entirely out of Veritas and operate on it with standard system tools.
Any help you can provide for this process would be appreciated, I haven't found much in the docs dealing with this type situation.
Thanks,
Greg.
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