Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Administering a System: Managing Disks and Files
Managing File Systems
Chapter 6634
Mirroring a Boot Disk with LVM on HP-UX 11i for HP Integrity
Servers
The following diagram shows the disk layout of a boot disk. The disk
contains a Master Boot Record (MBR) and Extensible Firmware
Interface (EFI) partition tables that point to each of the partitions. The
idisk command is used to create the partitions (see idisk (1M)).
Figure 6-5 Example LVM Disk Layout on HP Integrity Server
Before starting the procedure, make sure that add-on product HP
MirrorDisk/UX (B5403BA) is installed. This product is an extra-cost
product available on the HP-UX 11i application release media. For
example:
swlist -l fileset | grep -i mirror
LVM.LVM-MIRROR-RUN B.11.22 LVM Mirror
Step 1. Partition the disk using the idisk command and a partition description
file.
a. Create a partition description file. For example:
vi /tmp/idf
In this example the partition description file contains:
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EFI 500MB
HPUX 100%
HPSP 400MB