fdisk command in AIX 5L

[tovohery]

Hi all,

What is the equivalent of the linux command
fdisk -l
on AIX 5L

Regards,
Tovo

 

[p5wizard]

There ain't no such command on AIX 5L.

You need to read up on LVM - logical volume manager.
A place to start is here:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245432.html?Open

Similar info to fdisk -l would probably be:

lsvg -o|lsvg -il


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[tovohery]

Thanks

 

[mbourne2006]

Hi

Some folks rate this site, others less positive. I quite like it, useful if you are familiar with a flavour of UNIX and you want to find equivalent commands in other flavours:

http://bhami.com/rosetta.html

Have Fun !
Matthew Bourne
"Find a job you love and never do a day's work in your life.

 

[mrn]

fdisk is like the format command on Solaris, but and heres the good news AIX makes it even easier

First you have a volume group - which contains volumes

use lsvg to list them
use smit mkvg to make them
use man mkvg for more detail

*NOTE* A good feature of smit is that when you have filled in the detail you want press f6 or esc+6 to see the command line version of what smit is doing.

Next you have a logical volume (This is a little like a partition)

use lslv to list
use smit mklv to make them
use man mklv for more detail

And Finally you have the File system

take a look at /etc/filesystems
use smit mkfs to make them
see man mkfs


Hope this helps

Mike

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."