11-15-2018
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Originally Posted by
bakunin
Just because you create a logical volume of type "dump" doesn't mean it is used as dump. Use the sysdumpdev to find out which dump device is actually in use. You can also use this command to find out how big the dump device has to be (-e, estimate) and to set the dump device (-Pp <device>).
On another note, you seem to have doctored with the rootvg because it is quite unusual to have a 1GB PP-size. Usual PP-sizes in rootvgs are indeed 64MB and 128MB. I don't know what exactly you did, but: might it be that this has something to do with it?
I hope this helps.
bakunin
I figured out the problem. Yes I had already used sysdumpdev to verify that I was actually using the devices in question. The rootvg is fine, the reason it has a 1GB PP size is because the disks it was installed on are 4TB disks. So I believe it defaulted to 1GB PP size.
The problem was with the dumpcheck script. I ran it with debug on and found that it was reporting the block size for the dump device as 512 bytes. When I knew in fact that the block size was 4k. I found that it was an old version from 2010 that was missing a lot that the version on on most of our other servers were using. I copied the later version of the script, which correctly specified the block size of the dump device, and voila. So really, the dump device was fine, just the dumpcheck script was reporting the wrong size.
Thanks for your reply!
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