This chapter describes some DiskSuite problems and their appropriate solution. It is not intended to be all-inclusive but rather to present common scenarios and recovery procedures.
Here are the prerequisites for the steps in this section:
Have root privilege.
Have a current backup of all data.
Have the following information on hand when troubleshooting a DiskSuite problem:
Contents of the /etc/vfstab file
Status of state database replicas, metadevices, and hot spares, either from DiskSuite Tool or from the output of the metadb(1M) and metastat(1M) commands
Disk partitioning information, either from the prtvtoc(1M) command or Storage Manager (Solaris systems), or the fdisk command (x86 systems)
Solaris version
Solaris patches
DiskSuite patches