Recent content by zyrag

Thanks to you ggauthier and plamb. The reason I am doing this is bcoz the old logical volume consume a lot of disk space, but the actual consumption has reached only 45% in 3.5 years. Secondly, I want to move this lv to a single PV then utilize the other PV for mirroring (/fs1 is resides across...

oppps... sori, not finished yet.. here's the continuation.. 4. mount the new fs1 Will these procudure works? In case of failure, Would I be able to retrieve back the file contents of the orig fs1 (now fs1a) if I am to mount back fs1a to its original /fs1 mount point (assuming no other fs1 on...

I have copied (using cp -rp) the contents of filesystem (/fs1) on vg1 to /fs2 on vg2. While cleaning up the disk containing /fs1, I want to temporarily make /fs2 as the main /fs1 by doing the following procedure: 1. umount /fs1 2. smitty chfs and change mount point of fs1 to fs1a 3. smitty chfs...

Thanks plamb, but is alt_disk_install available in AIX 4.2.0? How do i know if the system has it? BTW, I have just taken over the responsibility of administering this machine from the resigned sysad.

I would really want to mirror rootvg. The problem is that hdisk1 size is 2.2GB while hdisk0 and hdisk3 is 4.5GB (I would likely encounter the error in PP size for this 2 different sized disk with the 1016 PP limitation for hdisk0). My plan is to move rootvg to hdisk0, then reducevg hdisk3 from...

The rootvg disk has been doing block relocation due to bad blocks. Currently, the system is still 100% up and running with the rootvg on same disk., However, I want to install/restore the latest mksysb on another disk so that the new disk will contain the root volume group. But, in case where...

Thanks rz0502.. I am taking a review on the instructions presented on the page.

The mirrorvg command could not be found with this os level (4.2.0.0). Does anyone have procedure to successfully mirror rootvg? In the AIX 4.3 SysAd redbook, it says that mirrorvg command only applies to AIX 4.2.1 or later. Where can i get patch files (and the documentation) to update to this...

Thanks johnwm... It was not just the folder having the property Read Only but each and every files within the folder.. Your hint was the good start.

I have a project copied from my PC into a CD. When I tried to restore it on my laptop disk drive, I could not save changes to the project. I noticed that the forms have locked-look icons on each side. What causes this project being locked? How do I unlocked it?

got it working now..

I tried to mirror rootvg on new pSeries 630-6e4 running on aix5.2L but got the message: * * * * * Please see the README file in...

The combination of johnwm's and dilettante's techniques seems to me could be the working solution to my problem. I shall continue experimenting with. DrSimon, TransferText is a method of what object? Twips is the unit of measure used with DataReport. 1 inch=1440 twips and I need to know how...

Hi, I been trying to export records to a text file. I have tried the techniques presented in the MSDN "Using Random Access File" - Using the combination user-defined type with fixed size fields, the Open statement for random access and the Put command to write the contents of the user-defined...

Luckily, i was able to find solution using the Sleep API.