Robert DiRosario wrote:
> I installed AIX 4.3.3 on my system and want to move /home to a
> separate disk.

We do this all the time. Should work.

> I umount'ed /home, deleted hd1 from the rootvg,
> created a new volume group (homevg) and created a logical volume hd1
> in the homevg.

This might be a problem...

> I'm starting to
> think that removing hd1 from rootvg may not have been a good thing to
> do. (I did not expect logical volumes to have entries in /dev.) Is
> this the problem? Should I remove hd1 from homevg and create a new
> hd1 in rootvg and then create a new logical volume in homevg with a
> different name, or am I missing something else?

If you went through smit to remove the original /home filesystem and
logical volume, everything should have gotten cleaned up. It's
possible that, at system boot, there was still an attempt to
mount hd1, but since it wasn't in the rootvg the attempt failed.
Just free-thinking here. You may want to use an alternative
LV naming scheme on your other VGs, and make sure that there
are appropriate entries in /etc/filesystems for all of your
custom FSs.

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