Re: labeling a disk on AIX 5L / disk cmds

From: Matthias (matthias_at_blankenhaus.com)
Date: 08/07/03 

Date: 6 Aug 2003 16:51:37 -0700

Nicholas Dronen <ndronen@io.frii.com> wrote in message
> M> - label disk devices
>
> That gets added to the VGDA when you add a disk to a volume
> group, which you have to do before you put a JFS filesystem
> on it.
In other words there is no separate cmd to just label a disk ?
>
> # extendvg
>
> M> - partition disks
>
I saw phys. partition and logical partitions. It appears that
conceptually
AIX logical volumes are what partions are on other UNIX systems like
Solaris or Linux. Is that correct ? If so what do I need phys.
partioning than for ?
> # mklv
> # chlv
> # rmlv
>

Thanx for the info !

Matthias

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