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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support AIX upgrade fails Post 302875843 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 20th of November 2013 12:58:46 PM
Old 11-20-2013
When you un-mirrored, do you expect to be able to reboot from the removed disk? This is not the case. If you did something like:-
Code:
unmirrorvg rootvg hdisk1
reducevg hdisk1
rmdev -dl hdisk1

... and then pulled it, then hdisk1 is empty if the reducevg completes.

It seems counter intuitive, but assuming that the two disks were completely mirrored and bootable, you would have been safer to shutdown, pull the disk, boot. That way, if you need to, you could have forced the boot via SMS to start from the disk you pulled out.

If hd5 is not on hdisk0, this would suggest that it was only on hdisk1. The unmirror will not move LVs that are not mirrored. This would mean that you could not take hdisk1 out the VG of course, so that would suggest that something was wrong at that point.


Before we panic too much. Are you happy that you have recent mksysb media to recover with?



Robin
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

selinux-policy-upgrade

selinux-policy-upgrade(8)				      System Manager's Manual					 selinux-policy-upgrade(8)

NAME

       selinux-policy-upgrade - upgrade the modules in the SE Linux policy database from a policy package

SYNOPSIS

       selinux-policy-upgrade

DESCRIPTION

       selinux-policy-upgrade  this  command  will  upgrade  all  policy  modules  (including the base modules) for to the versions that are under
       /usr/share/selinux/SELINUXTYPE

SEE ALSO

       selinux(8), sestatus(8), selinuxenabled(1), load_policy(8), semodule(8), postfix-nochroot(8),  check-selinux-installation(8),  selinux-con-
       fig-enforcing(8),  http://wiki.debian.org/SELinux - More about SELinux Debian install, http://etbe.coker.com.au/tag/selinux/ - Russell's SE
       Linux blog posts.

AUTHOR

       This program and it's man page was written by Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> for the Debian system (but may be used by others).  Per-
       mission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.

															 selinux-policy-upgrade(8)
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