mkfs: ERROR: initial allocation requirement ...

[dmarsee]

I have installed Veritas 3.5 on Solaris 9. I am forced to use the command line (Don't ask...).

I have successfully created several file systems with both 4 and 9 GB disk drives. I have a volume created which contains 6x9GB drives (no mirrors yet). But with this one when I get to the mkfs step... - here is my command and what error is returned:
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# mkfs -F vxfs -o bsize=8192 /dev/vx/rdsk/oradg/db50
UX:vxfs mkfs: ERROR: initial allocation requirement is 64 blocks,
UX:vxfs mkfs: ERROR: only 3 allocatable blocks available
UX:vxfs mkfs: ERROR: cannot create file system
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I am VERY STUCK... Thanks in advance for any assistance
DM

 

[dmarsee]

BELAY ALL ATTEMPTS TO ANSWER MY QUESTION - I had inadvertantly omitted the 'g' that needed to be after the 'length' attribute in the vxassist command... so the length was determined by the default size unit of 'sector'.

# vxassist growto db50 51 (51 sectors... WRONG)
# vxassist growto db50 51g (51 GB... RIGHT)

My goof... sorry to clutter your forum.