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Failure of disk encapsulation

Under some circumstances, encapsulation of a disk can fail. Usually this is because there is not enough free space available on the disk to accommodate the private region. If this happens, the procedure outlined above ends abruptly with an error message similar to the following:

VxVM ERROR V-5-2-338 The encapsulation operation failed with the following error:

It is not possible to encapsulate device, for the following reason:

<VxVM vxslicer ERROR V-5-1-1108 Unsupported disk layout.>

See the section, Using nopriv disks for encapsulation for advice about what you can do if this occurs.