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Operating Systems AIX Clone or mirror your AIX OS larger disk to smaller disk ? Post 302768483 by filosophizer on Friday 8th of February 2013 04:09:48 PM
Old 02-08-2013
Code:
root@test1:/>lsvg rootvg

VOLUME GROUP:       rootvg                   VG IDENTIFIER:  00c7780e00004c000000013b4d2a9ce3
VG STATE:           active                   PP SIZE:        512 megabyte(s)
VG PERMISSION:      read/write               TOTAL PPs:      19 (9728 megabytes)
MAX LVs:            256                      FREE PPs:       0 (0 megabytes)
LVs:                10                       USED PPs:       19 (9728 megabytes)
OPEN LVs:           9                        QUORUM:         1
TOTAL PVs:          1                        VG DESCRIPTORS: 2
STALE PVs:          0                        STALE PPs:      0
ACTIVE PVs:         1                        AUTO ON:        yes
MAX PPs per VG:     32512                                    0
MAX PPs per PV:     1016                     MAX PVs:        32
LTG size (Dynamic): 256 kilobyte(s)          AUTO SYNC:      no
HOT SPARE:          no                       BB POLICY:      relocatable

will running this command help

Code:
 chvg -t 2 rootvg
0516-1193 chvg: WARNING, once this operation is completed, volume group rootvg
        cannot be imported into AIX 430 or lower versions. Continue (y/n) ?
y
0516-1164 chvg: Volume group rootvg changed.  With given characteristics rootvg
        can include upto 16 physical volumes with 2032 physical partitions each.

VOLUME GROUP in AIX - web-manual


I made a clone from a 10GB rootvg on 15GB rootvg , should I get the 5GB as free space -- which I am not getting it !
 

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