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

for root logical volume, 88
for swap logical volume, 88, 101
updating boot information, 36, 91, 93, 118
lvmadm command, 12, 39, 110, 111, 115, 152, 154,
165
lvmchk command, 39
lvmerge command, 40, 68, 154
synchronization, 26
lvmove command, 40, 154
lvmpud, 107
lvmpud command, 40, 154
lvreduce command, 40
and pvmove failure, 74
reducing a file system, 99, 118
reducing a logical volume, 55, 154
reducing a swap device, 102
removing a mirror, 56, 154
removing a mirror from a specific disk, 56
lvremove command, 40, 56, 154
splitting a volume group, 67
lvrmboot command, 12, 16, 17, 40, 103, 118, 154
lvsplit command, 40, 68, 154
lvsync command, 26, 40, 154
M
maintenance mode boot, 89, 118
booting, 111
requirement for boot logical volume, 87
major number, 16, 44
mapping logical to physical extents, 10
mass storage stack, 27
tunable parameters, 164
MB, defined, 181
merging a split mirror logical volume, 68
minfree, 21
minor number, 16, 44
Mirror Consistency Recovery, 26
mirror copy
removing from disk, 129
Mirror Write Cache, 25
mirrored logical volumes, 24
adding a mirror, 55, 154
allocation policy, 24
backing up, 68
benefits, 24
boot logical volume, 89
creating a spare disk, 76
creating mirrored copies, 52
defined, 8, 181
determining if a logical volume is mirrored, 126
error messages, 166, 167, 177
handling non-recoverable errors, 113
handling recoverable errors, 112
logical to physical extent mapping, 10
maintenance mode, 112
merging, 68, 154
Mirror Write Cache, 29
mirroring the boot disk, 89
mirroring the boot disk,
HP 9000 servers, 89
HP Integrity servers, 91
modifying mirror copies, 52
physical volume groups, 30, 33
primary swap logical volume, 89
quiescing a logical volume, 65
reinstating a spare disk, 76
removing a mirror, 56, 154
replacing a boot disk, 137
replacing a non-boot disk, 132
root logical volume, 89
scheduling policy, 25, 29
separating I/O channels, 33
sparing, 27
splitting, 68, 154
stale data, 26
strict allocation policy, 167
striping, 33
synchronization policy, 25
synchronizing, 26, 154, 156
mkboot command, 17, 88, 90, 92, 139
mknod command, 44, 66, 71, 88, 155
modifying a mirrored logical volume, 52, 53
modifying a volume group's parameters, 58
moving data, 72, 74
moving disks, 70, 72
moving physical volumes, 71, 72
multipathing, 27
benefits, 27
defined, 8
disabling a path, 86
importing volume groups, 58
moving multipathed disks, 72
native, 13, 28
persistent device file, 13
removing multipathed disks, 52
setting up, 28
switching between links, 28
using LVM, 28
N
naming conventions, 13
newfs command, 32, 96, 99, 136
NFS
and fuser, 97, 99
non-strict allocation policy, 25
noncontiguous allocation, 11
defined, 25
P
parallel scheduling policy, 25
path_fail_secs parameter, 164
PB, defined, 181
physical extents, 10
beyond the size of a physical volume, 83
defined, 9
finding which logical volume is using, 126
moving to another disk, 51, 59, 62
performance considerations, 29
184 Index