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How To Work With Physical Volumes

Posted on April 11, 2009 by Ganesh Sharma

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I’ve written in my previous posts about introduction to Physical Volumes. There I also discussed some operations to be carried out on Physical Volumes. Now, I’ll be discussing some other operations on Physical Volumes like listing Physical Volumes, Logical Volumes on Physical Volumes, Physical Partitions allocations etc. For more information you can see the previous article: Aix Logical Volume Manager A Brief Introduction.

How To List Physical Volumes In Aix
To list Physical Volumes in Aix lspv command is used. This command gives the output as name of Physical Volume, its identifier which is a 16 character serial number, the Volume Group to which it belongs and the state of the physical volume whether its active or not. The identifier is also called PVID. Below is the command:

wiw_labs:$ lspv

hdisk0 034cd34d03b25531 altinst_rootvg

hdisk1 034cd34d7533e52b altinst_rootvg

hdisk2 034cd34d753ca221 rootvg active

hdisk3 034cd34d753ca5a8 rootvg active

How To List Connectivity Information of Physical Volume
To see the connectivity information of a Physical Volume you need to issue lsdev command. Here is how you issue this command:

wiw_labs:$ lsdev -C -c disk
hdisk0 Available 23-06-00-6,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
hdisk1 Available 3p-06-00-6,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
hdisk2 Available 4b-06-00-6,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
hdisk3 Available 5M-06-00-6,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive

-C: Device Class
-c: Device subclass(disk in this case)

Here you see the name of the disk, the status of the disk(available), its connectivity information and type of the disk.

How To List Overall Information About A Physical Volume
To see the overview of a physical volume let’s say hdisk2, we issue the command lspv with hdisk2 as argument as below:

wiw_labs:$ lspv hdisk2

PHYSICAL VOLUME hdisk2 VOLUME GROUP rootvg
PV IDENTIFIER 002cd34d753ca221 VG IDENTIFIER 002cd34d00004c000000010cfa6a1c1e
PV STATE active
STALE PARTITIONS 0 ALLOCATABLE yes
PP SIZE 64 megabyte(s) LOGICAL VOLUMES 11
TOTAL PPs 542 (34688 megabytes) VG DESCRIPTORS 2
FREE PPs 258 (16512 megabytes) HOT SPARE no
USED PPs 284 (18176 megabytes) MAX REQUEST 256 kilobytes
FREE DISTRIBUTION 28..13..00..108..109
USED DISTRIBUTION 81..95..108..00..00

*(Verify the distribution parameters by adding the PPs in a particular region and then check in overall information.)

The above command gives information about name, state, ID, Physical Partition Size, No of PP, Free and used PP, distribution of PPs, VG, allocatability and other parameters.

How To See What Logical Volumes Are Present On Physical Volume
To see the Logical Volume information on a Physical Volumes, you need to issue the command lspv with -l(logical volume) option. This gives information of Logical Volume name, no. of Logical Partitions in LV, No. of Physical Volume, the allocation distribution and mount point. Here is an example output:

wiw_labs:$ lspv -l hdisk2

LV NAME LPs PPs DISTRIBUTION MOUNT POINT
hd10opt

2

2

00..01..01..00..00 /opt
hd9var

39

39

00..05..34..00..00 /var
hd2

55

55

00..04..51..00..00 /usr
hd1

1

1

00..00..01..00..00 /home
hd3

32

32

00..20..12..00..00 /tmp
hd6

64

64

00..64..00..00..00 N/A
hd5

1

1

01..00..00..00..00 N/A
hd4

8

8

00..00..08..00..00 /
hd8

1

1

00..00..01..00..00 N/A
hd7

80

80

80..00..00..00..00 N/A
loglv00

1

1

00..01..00..00..00 N/A

How To See Physical Partition Information of Physical Volume
To see the Physical Partition information of a particular Physical Volume, you need to issue lspv command with -p flag.

wiw_labs:$ lspv -p hdisk2

PP RANGE STATE REGION LV NAME TYPE MOUNT POINT
1-1 used outer edge hd5 boot N/A
2-29 free outer edge
30-109 used outer edge hd7 sysdump N/A
110-173 used outer middle hd6 paging N/A
174-174 used outer middle loglv00 jfslog N/A
175-187 free outer middle
188-188 used outer middle hd10opt jfs2 /opt
189-192 used outer middle hd2 jfs2 /usr
193-212 used outer middle hd3 jfs2 /tmp
213-217 used outer middle hd9var jfs2 /var
218-218 used center hd8 jfs2log N/A
219-226 used center hd4 jfs2 /
227-277 used center hd2 jfs2 /usr
278-288 used center hd9var jfs2 /var
289-300 used center hd3 jfs2 /tmp
301-301 used center hd1 jfs2 /home
302-302 used center hd10opt jfs2 /opt
303-325 used center hd9var jfs2 /var
326-433 free inner middle
434-542 free inner edge

PP Range: Tells about Physical Partitions being used.
State: Whether PP is used or free.
Region: Where the PP is located on disk: outer edge, outer middle, center, inner middle or inner edge.
LV: Which Logical Volume is using these PPs.
Type: What type of Logical volume is there like boot, sysdump, jfs2, jfslog, paging etc.
Mount Point: It’s the mount point where a particular LV is mounted.

How To Determine Which Physical Partition is Mapped To Which Logical Partition
To determine the partition mapping from PP to LP, you need to issue lspv command with -M option. Let’s see the output below:

wiw_labs:$ lspv -M hdisk2

hdisk2:1 hd5:1:1
hdisk2:2-29
hdisk2:30 hd7:1
hdisk2:31 hd7:2
hdisk2:32 hd7:3
hdisk2:33 hd7:4
hdisk2:34 hd7:5
hdisk2:35 hd7:6
hdisk2:36 hd7:7
hdisk2:37 hd7:8

The output is truncated, because of space considerations.

The output shows which Physical Partition on hdisk2 is mapped to which Logical Partition on a Logical Volume.

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