Backup home by doing something like
Delete the /home partition. Create it smaller, that way you have disk space left over to create a (8e) LVM partition. You can use the vgcreate commands to create your volume group once you have created the LVM partition.
Hello,
I need explanations about physical disks and physical volumes. What is the difference between these 2 things?
In fact, i am trying to understand what the AIX lspv2command does.
Thank you in advance. (2 Replies)
I was in smit, checking on disc space, etc. and it appears that one of our physical volumes that is part of a large volume group, has no free physical partitions. The server is running AIX 5.1. What would be the advisable step to take in this instance? (9 Replies)
Hi!
Can anyone help me on how I can do a basic check on the Unix filesystems / physical volumes and logical volumes?
What items should I check, like where do I look at in smit? Or are there commands that I should execute?
I need to do this as I was informed by IBM that there seems to be... (1 Reply)
This is the report I got running the comand rptconf, but I would like to know what is the capacity of the disks installed into our server power 6 with AIX
System Model: IBM,7778-23X
Machine Serial Number: 1066D5A
Processor Type: PowerPC_POWER6
Processor Implementation Mode: POWER 6... (6 Replies)
hi guys
I'm added a new disk to my server (virtual environment)
It used to be a Volume Group=Vol_Group01
and Logical Volume= Log_Vol_01_Data
and I see /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/sdc: 133.1 GB, 133143986176 bytes
255 heads, 63... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am new to unix. I am working on Red Hat Linux and side by side on AIX also. After reading the concepts of Storage, I am now really confused regarding the terminologies
1)Physical Volume
2)Volume Group
3)Logical Volume
4)Physical Partition
Please help me to understand these concepts. (6 Replies)
Hello everyone,
I just read that while creating a logical volume(LV) we can choose the region of the physical volume (PV) in which the LV should be created.
When I say region I mean: outer edge - outer middle - center - inner middle and inner edge.
Can anyone help me understand the utility... (11 Replies)
I want to start by saying I already resolved my issue but I want to understand why I am seeing what I am seeing.
I have a server with a RAID controller two 500GB drives and six 600GB drives. The two 500GB drives are mirrored and have the OS installed on them. The six 600GB they wanted set as... (4 Replies)
When installing Linux, I choose some default setting to use all the disk space.
My server has a single internal 250Gb SCSI disk. By default the install appears to have created 3 logical volumes
lv_root, lv_home and lv_swap.
fdisk -l shows the following
lab3.nms:/dev>fdisk -l
Disk... (2 Replies)
Hello Guys,
I want to create a file system dedicated for an application installation. But there is no space in volume group to create a new logical volume. There is enough space in other logical volume which is being mounted on /var.
I know we can use that logical volume and create a virtual... (2 Replies)
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pvck
PVCK(8) System Manager's Manual PVCK(8)NAME
pvck - check physical volume metadata
SYNOPSIS
pvck [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [-v|--verbose] [--labelsector] PhysicalVolume [PhysicalVolume...]
DESCRIPTION
pvck checks physical volume LVM metadata for consistency.
OPTIONS
See lvm for common options.
--labelsector sector
By default, 4 sectors of PhysicalVolume are scanned for an LVM label, starting at sector 0. This parameter allows you to specify a
different starting sector for the scan and is useful for recovery situations. For example, suppose the partition table is corrupted
or lost on /dev/sda, but you suspect there was an LVM partition at approximately 100 MB. This area of the disk may be scanned by
using the --labelsector parameter with a value of 204800 (100 * 1024 * 1024 / 512 = 204800):
pvck --labelsector 204800 /dev/sda
Note that a script can be used with --labelsector to automate the process of finding LVM labels.
SEE ALSO lvm(8), pvcreate(8), pvscan(8)vgck(8)Sistina Software UK LVM TOOLS 2.02.95(2) (2012-03-06) PVCK(8)