In smitty when you are creating a LV, you'll see:
You can change this to whatever you want. If you are using a SAN though, it probably won't make any difference since most modern SANs move data around as needed and spread it across multiple disks all unknown to the OS. If you are using internal physical disks, you will most likely see a difference - outer is faster than the inner because the head that reads the disk can read more on the outer edge because more disk is passed under it in a single disk rotation.
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)
Hello,
I have logical volume group of 50GB, in which I have 2 logical volumes, LogVol01 and LogVol02, both are of 10GB.
If I extend LogVol01 further by 10GB, then it keeps the extended copy after logical volume 2. I want to know where it keeps this information
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Himanshu (3 Replies)
Does anyone have any simple methods for moving a current logical volume from one volume group to another? I do not wish to move the data from one physical volume to another. Basically, I want to "relink" the logical volume to exist in a different volume group. Any ideas? (2 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)
Hi,
Someone please help me with how i can unmount and remove all the files systems from a cluster. This is being shared by two servers that are active_standby. (3 Replies)
Hello,
I am a french computer technician, and i speak English just a little.
On Aix 5.3, I encounter a name conflict logical volume on two volume group.
The first volume lvnode01 is OK in rootvg and mounted. It is also consistent in the ODM
root # lsvg -l rootvg |grep lvnode01 ... (10 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)
hi,
I want to create a volume group of 200 GB and then create different file systems on that.
please help me out. Its becomes confusing when the PP calculating PP.
I don't understand this concept. (2 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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lvdisplay
LVDISPLAY(8) System Manager's Manual LVDISPLAY(8)NAME
lvdisplay - display attributes of a logical volume
SYNOPSIS
lvdisplay [-c|--colon] [-d|--debug] [-h|-?|--help] [--ignorelockingfailure] [--maps] [-P|--partial] [-v|--verbose] LogicalVolumePath [Logi-
calVolumePath...]
DESCRIPTION
lvdisplay allows you to see the attributes of a logical volume like size, read/write status, snapshot information etc.
lvs (8) is an alternative that provides the same information in the style of ps (1). lvs is recommended over lvdisplay.
OPTIONS
See lvm for common options.
-c, --colon
Generate colon separated output for easier parsing in scripts or programs. N.B. lvs (8) provides considerably more control over the
output.
The values are:
* logical volume name
* volume group name
* logical volume access
* logical volume status
* internal logical volume number
* open count of logical volume
* logical volume size in sectors
* current logical extents associated to logical volume
* allocated logical extents of logical volume
* allocation policy of logical volume
* read ahead sectors of logical volume
* major device number of logical volume
* minor device number of logical volume
-m, --maps
Display the mapping of logical extents to physical volumes and physical extents.
Examples
"lvdisplay -v /dev/vg00/lvol2" shows attributes of that logical volume. If snapshot logical volumes have been created for this original
logical volume, this command shows a list of all snapshot logical volumes and their status (active or inactive) as well.
"lvdisplay /dev/vg00/snapshot" shows the attributes of this snapshot logical volume and also which original logical volume it is associated
with.
SEE ALSO lvm(8), lvcreate(8), lvscan(8)Sistina Software UK LVM TOOLS 2.02.44-cvs (02-17-09) LVDISPLAY(8)