Step 9 - Create Pdisk Links - Parallel Upgrade Tool (PUT)

Parallel Upgrade Tool (PUT) Reference

Product
Parallel Upgrade Tool (PUT)
Release Number
3.09
Published
February 2020
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2020-02-24
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Product Category
Software
Teradata Tools and Utilities
Re-create the pdisk links to the new partitions for each pdisk on each node in the clique.
  1. To create a symbolic link between a pdisk device name and its corresponding /dev/disk/by-id entry, use the following ln command:
    ln -f -s /dev/disk/by-id/volguid pdiskname
    • volguid: The entry in the /dev/disk/by-id directory (that was noted above with the ls –l command that points to the /dev/sd or /dev/tdmp entry for this partition (enumerated in vconfig.txt) on the new LUN (for example, /dev/disk/by-id/3600a0b800047a7de000005264a69adb3-part2)
    • pdiskname: The pdiskname of the pdisk as it appears in the vconfig.txt (normally in the form of /dev/pdisk/dskXXX).
  2. Create an additional symbolic link using the following ln command:
    ln -f -s /dev/disk/by-id/volguid /lib/udev/devices/pdisk/dskxxx