HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Logical Volume Management (5900-3028, March 2013)

Index
Symbols
/etc/default/fs, 96
/etc/fstab, 35, 56, 66, 96
/etc/lvmconf/ directory, 18, 35, 69
/etc/lvmpvg, 33
/etc/lvmtab, 11, 21, 39, 57, 70, 72, 111, 118, 165,
166
/stand/bootconf, 91, 94
/stand/rootconf, 111
/stand/system, 23
/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log, 114, 117, 165, 175
A
adding a mirror to a logical volume, 55
adding a multipathed disk, 28
adding a physical volume to a volume group, 51
agile view, 12
allocation policy, 24
contiguous and noncontiguous, 25
strict and non-strict, 25
alternate boot disk
creating, 87
alternate links see multipathing
B
backups
mirrored logical volumes, 68
volume group configuration, 69
VxFS snapshot file system, 100
bad block relocation, 87, 102, 103, 114
BDRA
area on disk, 16
corrupted, 118
requirement for boot disks, 88
updating with lvlnboot, 36
block device file, 14
Boot Data Reserved Area see BDRA
boot logical volume, 88
information in BDRA, 16
lvlnboot, 88
mirroring, 89
requirements, 87
C
character device file, 14
cluster-wide device special files, 13
contiguous allocation
and logical volume size, 22
defined, 11, 25
for dump logical volume, 103
for swap logical volume, 101
converting a physical volume from bootable to
nonbootable, 83, 171
creating a dump logical volume, 102
creating a file system logical volume, 96
creating a logical volume, 52
creating a mirror of the boot disk, 89
creating a mirrored logical volume, 52
creating a physical volume, 43
creating a spare disk, 76
creating a striped logical volume, 52
creating a swap logical volume, 101
creating a volume group, 12, 44
creating an alternate boot disk, 87
D
database partitions
stripe size for, 32
device file
agile view, 12
block, 14
character, 14
creating, 44, 66, 71, 88, 89, 92
format, 15
legacy, 13, 14, 28, 86
legacy view, 12
logical volume, 15, 52, 56
persistent, 13, 14
physical volume, 14, 15, 72, 89, 92, 165
volume group, 15, 44, 57, 66, 71, 88
disabling a path to a physical volume, 86
disk failure, 132
disk sparing see sparing
disk striping see striping
disks, 9
see also physical volumes
moving, 71, 72
displaying LVM information, 41
du command, 21
dual cabling (dual controllers) see multipathing
dump logical volume, 23
creating, 102
guidelines, 23
removing, 103
requirements, 102
E
error handling, 112
media errors, 114
non-recoverable errors, 113
recoverable errors, 112
exporting a volume group, 57
extendfs command, 22, 98, 154
extending a file system logical volume, 97
extending a logical volume, 53
extending a logical volume to a specific disk, 54
extending a swap logical volume, 101
F
file system logical volume, 21
and /etc/default/fs, 96
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