From: admin@CF2TREE.COM
Date: Thu Apr 10 2003 - 17:25:24 EDT
Hi John,
I just did one command, 'bosboot -a', not seperate commands on both drives.
Would it still work? Anyone else with other inputs?
Quoting John Jolet <john.jolet@FXFN.COM>:
> hd5 is the boot partition...only used during boot. it will always be closed
> when the system is running. Bear in mind that to fully mirror rootvg and be
> able to boot, you need to do bosboot -a -d hdisk0 and bosboot -a -d hdisk1
> (assuming those are your drive names). it won't do you any good to mirror
> your boot drive, but not put a boot block on.
> I would remove one of the copies of hd6, though, you don't want to mirror
> your swap. i'd add a second swap, the same size as the first on the other
> spindle. email me direct if you need more help (just finished doing this on
> two boxes today).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: admin@CF2TREE.COM [mailto:admin@CF2TREE.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 2:48 PM
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Mirror rootvg questions
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> My system: AIX 5.1 running on a 6H1.
>
> I just mirrored the rootvg. There was no problem during the process. The
> system came up okay after the reboot. My question is why the LV STATE on
> hd5
> is different than others. Is this normal?
> My other question is that I did not 'mklvcopy' on lg_dumplv. Do I need to?
> Finally, how can I be sure the mirroring is working? Can I tell by this
> "lsvg -
> l rootvg' command?
>
> TIA
>
> # lsvg -l rootvg
> rootvg:
> LV NAME TYPE LPs PPs PVs LV STATE MOUNT POINT
> hd5 boot 1 2 2 closed/syncd N/A
> hd6 paging 32 64 2 open/syncd N/A
> hd8 jfslog 1 2 2 open/syncd N/A
> hd4 jfs 1 2 2 open/syncd /
> hd2 jfs 18 36 2 open/syncd /usr
> hd9var jfs 1 2 2 open/syncd /var
> hd3 jfs 4 8 2 open/syncd /tmp
> hd1 jfs 1 2 2 open/syncd /home
> hd10opt jfs 1 2 2 open/syncd /opt
> lg_dumplv sysdump 16 16 1 open/syncd N/A
>
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