using a partition under LSM

From: selcuk karaca (selcuk.karaca@aski.gov.tr)
Date: Wed Sep 03 2003 - 10:58:44 EDT


Hello admins...
My system:
ES40 - tru64Unix 5.1 PK4

I have read the LSM documentation but I could not extract the required
info... So I apply to your knowledge...
Firstly I have found LSM concepts difficult to learn. I know it is a kind of
(maybe extended) Software RIAD but the underlying concepts are difficult to
grasp (at least for me )

So My problem is;
I have 2 disks (dsk0c & dsk1c) . Their partitions are under LSM control.. I
know I have h partitions unused (LSM structure is factory installed, h
partitions are never used.. ) and want to use it as an advFS disk
space...But I dont know how to make these h partitions as a mirror volume
and use it under advFS..?

The following is disklabel of dsk0c (dsk1c is the same...) and volprint
outputs...

root#> disklabel dsk0c

8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] # NOTE:
values not exact
  a: 1048576 0 AdvFS # (Cyl.
   0 - 206*)
  b: 25165824 1048576 LSMnoprv # (Cyl.
206*- 5160*)
  c: 35565080 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl.
   0 - 7000)
  d: 0 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl.
   0 - -1)
  e: 0 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl.
   0 - -1)
  f: 4096 35560984 LSMsimp # (Cyl.
7000*- 7000)
  g: 5242880 26214400 LSMnoprv # (Cyl.
5160*- 6192*)
  h: 4103704 31457280 unused 0 0 # (Cyl.
6192*- 7000*)

root#MEVLANA:/dev/vol/rootdg> volprint -Aht
Disk group: rootdg

DG NAME NCONFIG NLOG MINORS GROUP-ID
DM NAME DEVICE TYPE PRIVLEN PUBLEN STATE
V NAME USETYPE KSTATE STATE LENGTH READPOL PREFPLEX
PL NAME VOLUME KSTATE STATE LENGTH LAYOUT NCOL/WID
MODE
SD NAME PLEX DISK DISKOFFS LENGTH [COL/]OFF DEVICE
MODE

dg rootdg default default 0 1038312520.1025.MEVLANA

dm dsk0f dsk0f simple 4096 0 -
dm dsk0g-AdvFS dsk0g nopriv 0 5242880 -
dm dsk1f dsk1f simple 4096 0 -
dm dsk1g-AdvFS dsk1g nopriv 0 5242880 -
dm root01 dsk0a nopriv 0 1048576 -
dm root02 dsk1a nopriv 0 1048576 -
dm swap01 dsk0b nopriv 0 25165824 -
dm swap02 dsk1b nopriv 0 25165824 -

v rootvol root ENABLED ACTIVE 1048576 ROUND -
pl rootvol-01 rootvol ENABLED ACTIVE 1048576 CONCAT -
RW
sd root01-01p rootvol-01 root01 0 16 0 dsk0a
ENA
sd root01-01 rootvol-01 root01 16 1048560 16 dsk0a
ENA
pl rootvol-02 rootvol ENABLED ACTIVE 1048576 CONCAT -
RW
sd root02-02p rootvol-02 root02 0 16 0 dsk1a
ENA
sd root02-02 rootvol-02 root02 16 1048560 16 dsk1a
ENA

v swapvol swap ENABLED ACTIVE 25165824 ROUND -
pl swapvol-01 swapvol ENABLED ACTIVE 25165824 CONCAT -
RW
sd swap01-01 swapvol-01 swap01 0 25165824 0 dsk0b
ENA
pl swapvol-02 swapvol ENABLED ACTIVE 25165824 CONCAT -
RW
sd swap02-02 swapvol-02 swap02 0 25165824 0 dsk1b
ENA

v vol-dsk0g fsgen ENABLED ACTIVE 5242880 SELECT -
pl vol-dsk0g-01 vol-dsk0g ENABLED ACTIVE 5242880 CONCAT -
RW
sd dsk0g-01 vol-dsk0g-01 dsk0g-AdvFS 0 5242880 0 dsk0g
ENA
pl vol-dsk0g-02 vol-dsk0g ENABLED ACTIVE 5242880 CONCAT -
RW
sd dsk1g-01 vol-dsk0g-02 dsk1g-AdvFS 0 5242880 0 dsk1g
ENA

Selcuk KARACA
Unix System Administrator
Turkiye



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