Physical Partition size on rootvg 3

[pdtak]

How do you set the Physical Partition size on rootvg when installing AIX OS from scratch (via CD or NIM installation)? It seems to default to 32MB, but I would like it to be 128MB.
Thanks!

 

[khalidaaa]

IMHO You don't have control on the partition size for the rootvg as far as i know! This will automatically be calculated according to your disk space allocated for rootvg.

Regards,
Khalid

 

[ogniemi]

you can fix the size eg. using NIM installation or alt_disk_install - both with customized PPSIZE in image.data

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoc...com.ibm.aix.files/doc/aixfiles/image.data.htm

 

[pdtak]

Ogniemi,
I ended up making mksysb backup to tape after changing the PP size in image.data file, then restored it back from the tape.
I guess there no way to set the PP size during the initial install of OS.
Thanks!

 

[ogniemi]

Have you tried install initial system from NIM?

I think 3 NIM resources would be enough to do it:

- spot
- lpp_source
- customized image_data

 

[pdtak]

Good idea Ogniemi!
I will remember to include the customized image.data on my next NIM install.
Thanks

 

[khalidaaa]

Good solution ogniemi! Have another star for this.

Regards,
Khalid