Hello.

I have a created an ssa RAID-5 disk array. What are the steps in AIX 4.3.+
smit to make use of the hdisk13 that I have created. (Add a volume group,
or Add a physical volume, etc...) Do I have to do the cfgmgr? The hdisk13
is already visible in the "List All Defined SSA Raid Arrays" in "smit
ssaraid".

Thanks in advance for your help.

The way is does not differ from the filesytem creation for
a SCSI hdisk and is somewhat like:

o create a volume group
mkvg -y vgname /dev/hdisk13

o create a logical volume in the volume group
(8 is the number of the physical partitions, use whatever you need)
mklv -y lvname vgname 8

o create a filesystem in the logical volume (type jfs for aix433)
crfs -v jfs -d lvname -m /mntpoint

o mount the filesystem
mount /mntpoint

You should read the man pages for the commands above as there
are some more things you should concider (e.g. the above filesytem
is limited to 2GB files etc.)

Bye, Stefan.. . .


C C wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have a created an ssa RAID-5 disk array. What are the steps in AIX 4.3.+
> smit to make use of the hdisk13 that I have created. (Add a volume group,
> or Add a physical volume, etc...) Do I have to do the cfgmgr? The hdisk13
> is already visible in the "List All Defined SSA Raid Arrays" in "smit
> ssaraid".
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.

Estefan,

Thank you so much. Is there a need of a reboot in any of the steps?
Or shall I ask - can I do these steps with all users on line?



"sllabres" <sllabres@baden-online.de> wrote in message
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> The way is does not differ from the filesytem creation for
> a SCSI hdisk and is somewhat like:
>
> o create a volume group
> mkvg -y vgname /dev/hdisk13
>
> o create a logical volume in the volume group
> (8 is the number of the physical partitions, use whatever you need)
> mklv -y lvname vgname 8
>
> o create a filesystem in the logical volume (type jfs for aix433)
> crfs -v jfs -d lvname -m /mntpoint
>
> o mount the filesystem
> mount /mntpoint
>
> You should read the man pages for the commands above as there
> are some more things you should concider (e.g. the above filesytem
> is limited to 2GB files etc.)
>
> Bye, Stefan.. . .
>
>
> C C wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I have a created an ssa RAID-5 disk array. What are the steps in AIX
4.3.+
> > smit to make use of the hdisk13 that I have created. (Add a volume
group,
> > or Add a physical volume, etc...) Do I have to do the cfgmgr? The
hdisk13
> > is already visible in the "List All Defined SSA Raid Arrays" in "smit
> > ssaraid".
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help.
>

Sorry I misspelled your name Stefan.

"C C" <someone@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Estefan,
>
> Thank you so much. Is there a need of a reboot in any of the steps?
> Or shall I ask - can I do these steps with all users on line?
>
>
>
> "sllabres" <sllabres@baden-online.de> wrote in message
> news:1119812723.559610.248880@o13g2000cwo.googlegr oups.com...
> > The way is does not differ from the filesytem creation for
> > a SCSI hdisk and is somewhat like:
> >
> > o create a volume group
> > mkvg -y vgname /dev/hdisk13
> >
> > o create a logical volume in the volume group
> > (8 is the number of the physical partitions, use whatever you need)
> > mklv -y lvname vgname 8
> >
> > o create a filesystem in the logical volume (type jfs for aix433)
> > crfs -v jfs -d lvname -m /mntpoint
> >
> > o mount the filesystem
> > mount /mntpoint
> >
> > You should read the man pages for the commands above as there
> > are some more things you should concider (e.g. the above filesytem
> > is limited to 2GB files etc.)
> >
> > Bye, Stefan.. . .
> >
> >
> > C C wrote:
> > > Hello.
> > >
> > > I have a created an ssa RAID-5 disk array. What are the steps in AIX
> 4.3.+
> > > smit to make use of the hdisk13 that I have created. (Add a volume
> group,
> > > or Add a physical volume, etc...) Do I have to do the cfgmgr? The
> hdisk13
> > > is already visible in the "List All Defined SSA Raid Arrays" in "smit
> > > ssaraid".
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for your help.
> >
>
>

Online of course.

If you are not that familiary with AIX you might find
smit (or even better smitty) usefull (e.g. 'smitty lvm')

Bye, Stefan... . .

C C wrote:
> Sorry I misspelled your name Stefan.
>
> "C C" <someone@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:2mJve.159$4m3.7@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com...
> > Estefan,
> >
> > Thank you so much. Is there a need of a reboot in any of the steps?
> > Or shall I ask - can I do these steps with all users on line?

Thanks. I use smit anyway.

"sllabres" <sllabres@baden-online.de> wrote in message
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> Online of course.
>
> If you are not that familiary with AIX you might find
> smit (or even better smitty) usefull (e.g. 'smitty lvm')
>
> Bye, Stefan... . .
>
> C C wrote:
> > Sorry I misspelled your name Stefan.
> >
> > "C C" <someone@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> > news:2mJve.159$4m3.7@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com...
> > > Estefan,
> > >
> > > Thank you so much. Is there a need of a reboot in any of the steps?
> > > Or shall I ask - can I do these steps with all users on line?
>