Tag Archives: AIX

Volume Group Status Area (VGSA)

Information about which PPs that are stale and which PVs are missing within a VG. The LVM and SCSI driver reserves somewhere between 7-10% of the available disk space for LVM maps, etc. Ref: http://www.datadisk.co.uk/html_docs/hp/aix_lvm.htm

Volume Group Descriptor Area (VGDA)

Information about all the LVs and PVs within a VG. The first 64K of a PV is reserved for this area – defined in <sys/bootrecord.h>. The VGDA consists of BOOTRECORD: – first 512 bytes. Allows the Read Only System (ROS) … Continue reading

Volume Group Characteristics

You can find below the meaning of each parameter on Volume Group Characteristics (the output from lsvg vg command):   Volume Group: Name of Volume Group. VG State: active/partial. Partial indicates that some of the Physical Volumes in the Volume … Continue reading

en vs et vs ent

most of us has  confused between the network devices en, et & ent, you can read the following to put a limit for this confusion 🙂 : ent: The notation ent is used to specify the hardware adapter. It has … Continue reading

LVM

LVM :- Logical Volume Manager and it’s a disk Management for Linux/UNIX Systems.

how to Compare between 2 files

how to comapre between 2 files to list the differences between them ??? there is a greate 2 commands which you can use them. first command is diff FILE1 FILE2 and this command just display the difference between the 2 … Continue reading

How to sync users and password between hosts on hacmp

AIX has a wonderful method to synchronize the users and their passwords or any files you need to sync them between HACMP Nodes. there is a command call “rdist”, this command used to transfer files between hosts and make them … Continue reading

how to know current run level

run the following command to know your current run level: # who -r run-level 2 2013-12-20 00:39