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Old 12-02-2008
Basic Filesystem / Physical Volume / Logical Volume Check

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 an error on our SAN disks. I don't even know what SAN disks are.

Thanks!
Chip Ahoys
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Old 12-02-2008
there is a lot of stuff you will have to look at

Problems
errpt
system messages and your syslog

LVM
lspv
lsvg |lsvg -il
lsvg |lsvg -ip

disks
lspv
lspath
pcmpath query device --->pcmpath ( for mpio ) datapath (for sdd ) Look at disk storage

here are some links to try and get started
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/WikiPtype/Home
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