Re: Assistance with understanding Logical Volumes under AIX.

From: Mark Taylor (mky_at_talk21.com)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: 26 Jan 2005 05:22:31 -0800

if you use smit to create the filesystem on a previosly defined LV then
it will defaultot use the whole LV for the filesystem..

Thats one way.

the other is read some books.

The A-Z of LVM Redbooks are great, they are based on 433, but give you
a great insight in to how LVM ties together.

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245433.html?Open
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245432.html?Open

How about a Redbook detailling Veritas VM and LVM

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp0107.html?Open

Then there are the docs etc..

mkvg
mklv
crfs
mkfs

http://publib16.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ds_form?lang=en_US&viewset=AIX
HTH
Mark Taylor

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