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Size Up Your Disks in AIX

by Anthony English -- 1/23/2012 9:11 PM

If your AIX environment has disks of different sizes it can be difficult to keep track of just how big each one is. Of course, you can use the lspv command, but only for the Physical Volumes (disks) that are members of active Volume Groups (VGs). If you want to check the size of a disk even if it's not in a VG, use the getconf command.

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Size Up Your Disks in AIX

by Anthony English -- 1/23/2012 9:11 PM

If your AIX environment has disks of different sizes it can be difficult to keep track of just how big each one is. Of course, you can use the lspv command, but only for the Physical Volumes (disks) that are members of active Volume Groups (VGs). If you want to check the size of a disk even if it's not in a VG, use the getconf command.

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IBM Promotes Power Systems Special Offers

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How to Assign More Disk to rootvg in AIX

by Anthony English -- 1/9/2012 6:53 PM

This tip shows you how to grow the existing disk in rootvg without any outage on the AIX logical partition. It's important to have enough spare disk in rootvg -- the AIX OS volume group -- as it contains critical file systems such as /, /usr, /var and /tmp. rootvg can also be used for paging space and system dump devices, as well as user file systems, so it's helpful to give it some head room. You may just need the extra disk space one day.

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