topic Re: BDF Command in Operating System - HP-UX

BDF Command

Richard Brak_2 — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:37:27 GMT

When trying to perform a BDF command on my disk, I receive the following message:

bdf: /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0: Invalid argument

What am I doing wrong?

Re: BDF Command

Mark Greene_1 — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:39:08 GMT

you can run bdf against one or more file system, but not against the drives themselves.

mark

Re: BDF Command

Alzhy — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:40:35 GMT

You do not use bdf on physical disks.. you use it on Filesystems ie: bdf /var

Re: BDF Command

Geoff Wild — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:41:04 GMT

You don't do bdf on the /dev/rdsk/disk

But on:

bdf /usr
or
bdf /dev/vg00/lvol7
or
bdf /dev/dsk/c0t6d0

Rgds...Geoff

Re: BDF Command

Helen French — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:41:20 GMT

What's actually you trying to do?

# bdf

This command will give you a list of all mounted file systems and it's usage. If you want to know about a specific disk, use these commands:

# diskinfo /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0
# pvdisplay -v /dev/dsk/c0t6d0

Remember that 'rdsk' is for raw devices and 'dsk' is for block devices.

Re: BDF Command

Richard Brak_2 — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:45:05 GMT

Thanks guys, diskinfo worked fine.