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Friday, March 15, 2013

vgextend: Couldn't install the physical volume "/dev/dsk/". Too many links

Problem Description:vgextend: Couldn't install the physical volume "/dev/dsk/".
Too many links

root@indrtest# vgextend /dev/indrtests /dev/dsk/c40t5d2 /dev/dsk/c43t5d2
vgextend: Couldn't install the physical volume "/dev/dsk/c40t5d2".
Too many links
vgextend: Couldn't install the physical volume "/dev/dsk/c43t5d2".
Too many links
root@indrtest# vgextend /dev/indrtests /dev/dsk/c40t5d2
vgextend: Couldn't install the physical volume "/dev/dsk/c40t5d2".
Too many links

Solution:
Unfortuantely that probably means you reached the maximum number of PV allowed for this Volume Group.

do a
#vgdisplay -v indrtest|more

and check that your Max PV is higher than the Cur PV. If they are equal (which is what I think is happening right now), that means you cannot add any more disks into that VG.

You either have to create a new VG, or re-create this current VG with option -p to have more disks than the actual value.
Cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyhow.

root@marssvr# vgdisplay -v /dev/indrtests|more
--- Volume groups ---
VG Name                     /dev/indrtests
VG Write Access             read/write    
VG Status                   available                
Max LV                      255   
Cur LV                      34    
Open LV                     34    
Max PV                      32    
Cur PV                      32    
Act PV                      32    
Max PE per PV               14687       
VGDA                        64 
PE Size (Mbytes)            4              
Total PE                    319278 
Alloc PE                    319278 
Free PE                     0      
Total PVG                   0       
Total Spare PVs             0             
Total Spare PVs in use      0

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