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Solaris Cluster 3.x and VxVM Veritas Volume Manager - How to Avoid newfs'ing the Wrong VxVM Volume When "stderr: VxVM vxdg ERROR V-5-1-958 Some minor numbers in the requested range are used by other disk groups" occured (Doc ID 1590181.1)

Last updated on MARCH 03, 2022

Applies to:

Solaris Cluster - Version 3.1 to 3.3 U2 [Release 3.1 to 3.3]
Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) Software - Version 3.0.6 to 5.1 [Release 3.0 to 5.0]
Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit)
Oracle Solaris on SPARC (32-bit)
Oracle Solaris on x86-64 (64-bit)

Symptoms

Running newfs on a newly created Veritas/Symantec Volume Manager (VxVM) Disk Group (DG)/Volume effected a different VxVM DG/Volume in Oracle Solaris Cluster (OSC) 3.x environment.

Relevant notice in /var/adm/messages:

 

Changes

A new VxVM DG & Volume had been created.

Cause

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