Comments on: Replacing a hard drive with Solaris Volume Manager http://www.utahsysadmin.com/2008/09/29/replacing-a-hard-drive-with-sun-volume-manager/ Ramblings of a Utah System Administrator Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:01:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kevin Pendleton http://www.utahsysadmin.com/2008/09/29/replacing-a-hard-drive-with-sun-volume-manager/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Kevin Pendleton Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:32:01 +0000 http://www.utahsysadmin.com/?p=108#comment-139 It was pointed out to me that since the drive had the right partitions on it and had the same device name, it would be possible to replace all of the lines like this: # metadetach -f d7 d17 # metaclear d17 # metainit d17 1 1 c0t0d0s7 # metattach d7 d17 to just this: # metareplace -e d17 c0t0d0s7 The -e is the important part of this. Without the -e it would complain, but the -e allows you to resync with the same name. It was pointed out to me that since the drive had the right partitions on it and had the same device name, it would be possible to replace all of the lines like this:

# metadetach -f d7 d17
# metaclear d17
# metainit d17 1 1 c0t0d0s7
# metattach d7 d17

to just this:

# metareplace -e d17 c0t0d0s7

The -e is the important part of this. Without the -e it would complain, but the -e allows you to resync with the same name.

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