Error Message

# vxassist -g swapdg2 -U swap make swapvol3 2313m
VxVM vxassist ERROR V-5-1-0 Cannot use CDS disk for this operation.

Additional swap space can only be added as non-CDS disks

1. Destroy the CDS swap disk group:

# vxdg destroy swapdg2

2. Re-initialize the disk with format of hpdisk:

# /etc/vx/bin/vxdiskunsetup -C

# /etc/vx/bin/vxdisksetup -i format=hpdisk

3. Re-create the swap disk group:

# vxdg init swapdg cds=off

4. Create create the swap volume:

# vxassist -g swapdg2 -U swap make swapvol3 2313m

Applies To

SF 5.0 for HP-UX 11iv3
InfoScale8.0.2 for RHEL8.8