07-17-2015
I have never heard the term standalone LPAR. The very name Logical Paritition means it is not a physical contruct. An IBM stand alone server is a physical entity that cannot be partitioned (these are usually older models, current models with appropriate licensing support virtualization). Perhaps you mean the case where an IBM server that supports partitioning has only 1 LPAR that has all they physical resources. A VIOS (virtual IO server) is a custom LPAR that can be used to give other LPARS virtual resources. The VIOS is assigned the physical resources of the IBM server (like a physical adapter) and then the VIOS can create a virtual adapter (like vSCSI) and map it to a client LPAR.
The "real magic" in Virtual Based systems is what is know as the hypervisor. IBM servers support PHYP and OpenKVM (for linux OpenPower). The hypervisor is a layer between physical resources of a server and the logical partitons (LPARS).
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about the prtconf command:, a physical system would return "-1 NULL"
-L
Displays LPAR partition number and partition name if this is an LPAR partition, otherwise returns
"-1 NULL".
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fs_diskfree
FS_DISKFREE(1) AFS Command Reference FS_DISKFREE(1)
NAME
fs_diskfree - Shows data about the partition housing a directory or file
SYNOPSIS
fs diskfree [-path <dir/file path>+] [-human] [-help]
fs df [-p <dir/file path>+] [-hu] [-he]
fs di [-p <dir/file path>+] [-hu] [-he]
DESCRIPTION
The fs diskfree command formats and displays information about the partition that houses the volume containing the specified directory or
file, including its size and how much space is currently used.
To display information about the volume itself, use the fs examine command. The fs examine and fs quota commands also display information
about a volume.
CAUTIONS
The partition-related statistics in this command's output do not always agree with the corresponding values in the output of the standard
UNIX df command. The statistics reported by this command can be up to five minutes old, because the Cache Manager polls the File Server for
partition information at that frequency. Also, on some operating systems, the df command's report of partition size includes reserved space
not included in this command's calculation, and so is likely to be about 10% larger.
OPTIONS
-path <dir/file path>+
Names a file or directory that resides on the partition about which to produce output. Partial pathnames are interpreted relative to
the current working directory, which is also the default value if this argument is omitted.
-human
Print space in a "human-readable" format. Instead of always printing space in kilobytes, show disk space in kilobytes, megabytes,
gigabytes, terabytes, or petabytes, as appropriate.
-help
Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored.
OUTPUT
The output reports the following information about the volume and partition that houses each file or directory:
Volume Name
The name of the volume.
total
The partition's total size. If -human is not specified, this value is in kilobytes.
used
The amount of space used on the partition. If -human is not specified, this value is in kilobytes.
avail
The amount of space available on the partition. If -human is not specified, this value is in kilobytes.
%used
The percentage of the partition's total space that is used (the "used" statistic divided by the "kbytes" statistic, times 100).
If the %used statistic is greater than 90%, it is marked with the string "<<WARNING" at the right margin.
If the volume is a read-only volume, the output includes information about only one of the partitions that houses it, generally the one on
the file server machine with the lowest preference rank. To verify which machine the output is referring to, use the vos listvldb command
to list the volume's locations, and the vos partinfo command to display the size of each one.
EXAMPLES
The following example shows the output for the partitions housing the volumes "user.smith" and "sun4x_56.bin":
% fs diskfree -path /afs/abc.com/usr/smith /afs/abc.com/sun4x_56/bin
Volume Name total used avail %used
user.smith 4177920 3841258 336662 92% <<WARNING
sun4x_56.bin 4423680 3174500 1249180 72%
PRIVILEGE REQUIRED
The issuer must have the "r" (read) permission on the ACL of the root directory of the volume that houses the file or directory named by
the -path argument, and "l" (list) permission on the ACL of each directory that precedes it in the pathname.
SEE ALSO
fs_examine(1)
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