Originally posted by: thoza2ibm

hello,

i have been trying to mirror the rootvg on hdisk1, but then it displays this error message. could you please help as to what could be the course of this error..

Command: running stdout: yes stderr: no

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0516-404 allocp: This system cannot fulfill the allocation request.
There are not enough free partitions or not enough physical volumes
to keep strictness and satisfy allocation requests. The command
should be retried with different allocation characteristics.
0516-1517 mklvcopy: Failed to create a valid partition allocation.
0516-842 mklvcopy: Unable to make logical partition copies for
logical volume.
0516-1199 mirrorvg: Failed to create logical partition copies
for logical volume hd7.
0516-1200 mirrorvg: Failed to mirror the volume group.
0516-1246 rmlvcopy: If hd5 is the boot logical volume, please run 'chpv -c <diskname>'
as root user to clear the boot record and avoid a potential boot
off an old boot image that may reside on the disk from which this
logical volume is moved/removed.

Originally posted by: IgnacioDB

Hi thoza, there are two possible causes of this error:

• The hdisk 1 no have the same size of hdisk of rootvg (you can check the size of each disk and comparing using: bootinfo -s hdisk1).
• The strictness policy of rootvg (On or Superstrict)

Regards