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Associated Information

- Changing the dump area
- Disk striping with LVM
- Mirroring disks with LVM
- Mirroring the Root Volume
- Moving LVM disks
- Reszing Filesystems
- Setting up swap under LVM

Useful Links

1. Check available disks using: ioscan -fnCdisk

2. Size can be checked using: diskinfo -v /dev/rdsk/device

3. pvcreate -f /dev/rdsk/device

4. mkdir /dev/vg_name

5. cd /dev/vg_name ; mknod group c 64 0x0n0000 (where is the next number avaiable incrementaly. i.e. for vg00 n is 0 so for vg01 n would be 1)
6. vgcreate /dev/vg_name /dev/dsk/device /dev/dsk/device2 etc ...

7. lvcreate -L size -n name /dev/vg_name

8. newfs -F vxfs /dev/vg_name/rname (or -F hfs for hfs type filesystem)

9. mkdir /mount_point

10. edit /etc/fstab to include new filesystem

11. mount -a to mount filesystem