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Old 11-16-2009
copy failing disk to Spare
Hi Guys,

I have a failing 4gb (c0t5d0) drive that contains lvol4 -8 on hp-ux. It's not the boot disk but is part of VG00 volume group. Within that group, I have a disk (c0t4d0) of the same size that has 1 lvol on it for swap(4gb) I also have a seperate 1.5 gb swap volume on another physical disk

Can I remove the 4gb swap volume(lvol9) and then somehow copy the failing disk to the now empty swap disk. If this is possible, can you please help me with the order/commands I will need to perform this.

I'm assuming the following will work just need clarification -

goto Sam and remove the 4gb Swap volume from physical disk c0t4d0

copy from c0t5d0 to c0t4d0 using 'dd if=c0t5d0 of=c0t4d0

shut server down and phyisically swap c0t5d0 for a new drive,

change c0t4d0 to c0t5d0 physical address

then reboot

does this make sense?

I'm assuming the new empty physical disk will need to be c0t4d0. Will the system recognise that lvol4-8 are on the right disk?

Any help with this will be great as I don't want to lose any data
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Old 11-16-2009
ddrescue should do a better job than does dd.
 
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