hello,

looks to be little problem....  that partition looks to be the public region of disk....

You can create same partition with same cylinders but not sure if that can help.... or else try reinitializing disk using "vxdisksetup" with same offset values used before.... (u can get this data from old explorer or CBR output).. this might retrive your VTOC...

Gaurav

Hi ,

"-" is not a valid tag, Veritas tags would be tag 14 & tag 15.. these tags will be put automatically when you initialize the disk...

Now when you are re-initializing a disk... if you provide old offset values (which were there prebviously on the disk), you can preserve data..... for e.g

Lets say below mentioned was my disk which lost partition table.... & from /etc/vx/cbr/bk/rootdg.xxxxxx/xxxxx.diskinfo file, I found following information...

# vxdisk list c1t50060E801029E2E0d7s2 | egrep 'public:|private:'
public: slice=2 offset=65792 len=10340608 disk_offset=0
private: slice=2 offset=256 len=65536 disk_offset=0

Same information can be found from any old Veritas explorer if you have.... So to reinitialize this disk without loosing the date, I would use following command:

# vxdisksetup -fi c1t50060E801029E2E0d7 puboffset=65792 publen=10340608 privoffset=256 privlen=65536 format=cdsdisk

Please note, getting data back is not guaranteed, in case anything else has been written down to public region, data might be lost.... but since its a rootdg I would assume to remiiror it with rootdisk....

hop this helps

Gaurav

check the partition information of the disk in the /etc/vx/reconfig.d/disk.d/<disk>
the vtoc info should be there before and after encap .
you could use some "vxedvtoc" command and restore the partition table back..
Check with a techsupport before doing so.