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szhao
Level 2
16 years ago

Woops.. overwrote VxVM private region

Hello,

 

Recently I made the novice mistake of having overwritten the VxVM private region of an initialized disk. In particular I took out the CDS disk ID block at offset 8k offset.

 

Now the disk is showing as having a bad format on vxdisk list. I have tried reinitializing with vxdisk -f init, but it returns a "disk write failure".

 

What can I do to reinitialize this disk?

 

Thanks!

  • Have you ever tried unsetup the disk?

     

    /etc/vx/bin/vxdiskunsetup <diskname>?