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Operating Systems AIX Position of the logical volume on the physical volume Post 302751731 by kah00na on Friday 4th of January 2013 11:13:25 AM
Old 01-04-2013
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Originally Posted by zxmaus
the center is the fastest on a disk...
The center is fastest? Outer tracks would have more sectors so as the disk spins, the head is able to read more sectors in a single disk rotation, right?

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Here is a descent animation of the head seeking data on Western Digital's website. It is advertising their "IntelliSeek", but it shows how the head reads data.
Western Digital
 

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PVREMOVE(8)                                                   System Manager's Manual                                                  PVREMOVE(8)

NAME
pvremove - remove a physical volume SYNOPSIS
pvremove [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [-t|--test] [-v|--verbose] [--version] [-f[f]|--force [--force]] [-y|--yes] PhysicalVolume [PhysicalVol- ume...] DESCRIPTION
pvremove wipes the label on a device so that LVM will no longer recognise it as a physical volume. OPTIONS
See lvm(8) for common options. -ff, --force --force Force the removal of a physical volume belonging to an existing volume group. Normally vgreduce(8) should be used instead of this command. You cannot remove a physical volume which in use by some active logical volume. -y, --yes Answer yes to all questions. SEE ALSO
lvm(8), pvcreate(8), pvdisplay(8), vgreduce(8) Sistina Software UK LVM TOOLS 2.02.95(2) (2012-03-06) PVREMOVE(8)
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