SORT

Veritas™ Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)

Error Code details
V-5-1-6479
Severity: Error 
Component: Volume Manager 
Message:
Device %s is already in use by a foreign Volume Manager
Description:

The device you are trying to add to the VxVM disk group is already used by a different (foreign) volume manager.

 

Veritas solutions
Solution 1 Vote: [Useful] [Not useful]
Last Modified: 2010-11-04 18:17:51
Platform: Solaris 10 (SPARC), Solaris 10 (x86-64)
Release: 5.1
Content:

To correct this error:

  1. Remove the device from foreign volume manager control.
     
  2. Clear the meta data on the device using the commands specified by the foreign volume manager.
     
  3. Try adding the device to VxVM again.