Thanks very much for the information.

For a Virtual Server (VIO) environment, I had to recreate the virtual device for the representative hdisk before I could get the additional space recognized on the AIX lpar.

AIX lpar1:
unmount fs
varyoffvg datavg
exportvg datavg
rmdev -dl hdisk1

VIO:
rmvdev the target device "rmvdev -vtd lpar1_hdisk1"
mkvdev the target device "mkvdev -vdev hdisk10 -vadapter vhost2 -dev lpar1_hdisk1"

AIX lpar1:
cfgmgr
importvg -y datavg hdisk1 (got the "appear to have grown in size" message this time)
chvg -g datavg

that is all

venatorm:

I also have the VIO environment and am trying to increase the size of an existing LPAR volume (AIX 5.3). But, I don't have the 'rmvdev' command in either the padmin or root user environments (I have rmdev, but no rmvdev, and neither of the rmdev commands take a '-vtd' argument ???). Is your rmvdev command a script or an extension or something? If so, can you share it?

Thanks,

Jon

I am running VIO 1.2 (ioslevel from padmin) and the command shows up under "Device commands" when I run "help". I do run 'rmvdev' from padmin.

I suppose if your version is older (or newer), you really just need to determine how to delete the target virtual disk device and then recreate it to get the size change to be recognized.

Thank you for the great information, i have a question regarding the mkdev command.

Venatorm wrote:
mkvdev the target device "mkvdev -vdev hdisk10 -vadapter vhost2 -dev lpar1_hdisk1"
End of his comments:


How do i find the vhost2 information? or what command shows a list of all the hosts.

Thanks

disregard
lsdev is what i was looking for.
Thanks

on a vio run the
lsmapp -all

you can grep or more it, it might be a tad long the the details. however if you are doing a rmvdev etc you will save your self a big hasle to keep this hostnumber around.