Hello
I've been working on AIX 5.3 ML3 on IBM pSeries520. That server has 6 HDD drives in 3 volume groups (1+mirror in each group). I must check which phisical disk is which disk in the system. For ex. I want to know that disk in 4th slot in the machine is marked as hdisk5 on AIX. Does anybody... (2 Replies)
My root disk is failed and how to replace the root disk in AIX.
Can u give a detailed explanation in step wise.
Pls give the answer taking different scenarios.
Regards
Praveen (1 Reply)
hello
i'm running on P570 box aix 5.3 8 cpus 24G ram
there are 1850 users loged in to this box
the problem is that the two sysytem disks busy all the time
hdisk0 100% busy
hdisk1 100% busy
some one have an idea what writing to this disks?
thanks
ariec (9 Replies)
This may sound like an absolute rookie question, and it is.
I have been working on Migrating our HP and Solaris servers to the new EMC SAN and know the routines backwards.
Now we've suddenly got a new IBM server and I don't even know how to check if it is connected to the switch.
Can someone... (1 Reply)
We run two p5 nodes running AIX 5L in a cluster mode (HACMP), both the nodes share external disk arrays. Only the primary node can access the shared disks at a given point of time.
We are in the process of adding two new disks to the disk arrays so as to make them available to the existing... (3 Replies)
HI, I have had an issue last night while trying to extend a filesystsem . chvg -g <vg> command cameback with an error
0516-1790 chvg: Failed bootinfo -s hdisk9.
Ensure the physical volume is available and try again.
0516-732 chvg: Unable to change volume group u01vg.
the VG has 1... (1 Reply)
Hello
I recently received a request to reclaim hard disks and IP addresses within an AIX system(s). THe file systems are no longer in use and the client has indicated that it is OK to remove them and reclaim the disks and release the IP's. Now, since the file systems belong to a Volume group I... (8 Replies)
Hi everybody,
I have a little problem with my AIX 6.1, PowerHA 6.1 LVM mirror. After problem with SAN pathing of our one Datacenter, I have LV at stale state.
# lsvg cpsdata2vg
VOLUME GROUP: cpsdata2vg VG IDENTIFIER: 00fb518c00004c0000000169445f4c2c
VG STATE: ... (6 Replies)
Hi there,
I had issue with one of MY FC cards on T4-2 servers so system team replace it and start the machine but when launch FORMAT command so I don't see my shared disks coming from storage controller. i have checked at the Fabric switch so WWN numbers are visible and zones are ok and after... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
partx
PARTX(8) System Manager's Manual PARTX(8)NAME
partx - telling the kernel about presence and numbering of on-disk partitions.
SYNOPSIS
partx [-a|-d|-l] [--type TYPE] [--nr M-N] [partition] disk
DESCRIPTION
Given a block device ( disk ) and a partition table type , try to parse the partition table, and list the contents. Optionally add or
remove partitions.
This is not an fdisk - adding and removing partitions is not a change of the disk, but just telling the kernel about presence and numbering
of on-disk partitions.
OPTIONS -a add specified partitions or read disk and add all partitions
-d delete specified or all partitions
-l list partitions. Note that the all numbers are in 512-byte sectors.
--type TYPE
Specify the partition type -- dos, bsd, solaris, unixware or gpt.
--nr M-N
Specify the range of partitions (e.g --nr 2-4).
SEE ALSO addpart(8), delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8)AVAILABILITY
The partx command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
11 Jan 2007 PARTX(8)