topic Re: Calculating Disk usage in Operating System - HP-UX

Calculating Disk usage

Sonison James — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 01:53:45 GMT

Hello,

Given a PV I have to calculate the sum of free space on all file systems on that PV. I need to do this programatically, so API(s) would be really helpful.

Thanks and regards
Sonison James

Re: Calculating Disk usage

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 02:26:07 GMT

Hi,

See if this small script helps you.

#!/usr/bin/ksh
if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
echo "Usage: $0 PV"
exit
fi

/usr/sbin/pvdisplay -v $1 > /tmp/pv$$ 2>&1

if [ $? != 0 ]
then
echo "$1 is not a PV"
exit
fi

for LV in $(awk '/current/ {print $3}' /tmp/pv$$|sort|uniq)
do
bdf $LV > /tmp/pv$$ 2>&1
if [ $? = 0 ]
then
FREE=$(df -k $LV|awk '/free/ {print $1}')
echo $LV ${FREE} KB
else
echo "$LV failed"
fi
done

rm /tmp/pv$$

-Sri

Re: Calculating Disk usage

Con O'Kelly — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 02:27:10 GMT

Hi

Not entirely sure what you are trying to achieve but the following may help.

First you need to determine which filesystems are on that PV.
Issue the following command:
# pvdisplay -v

This will show you which LV's are using space on that PV. You can then do a bdf and look at the free space for that LV (filesystem). Remember that LV's (filesystems) can span multiple disks. You can check which PV's an LV is using by:
# lvdisplay -v
eg lvdisplay -v /dev/vg01/lvol3

To calculate how much free space is on the PV look for "Free PE" value in the pvdisplay output.
You need to multiply the Free PE value by the PE size (this can seen in the vgdisplay output) to get free space on the PV in Mbytes.

I have attached a script which may help you in analysing your disk usage.

Cheers
Con

Re: Calculating Disk usage

Sonison James — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:23:18 GMT

Hello,

Sri your script seems to solved my problem except for some 'failed' messages that I get for some LVs. Please see the output that I got for one PV:

[james@c test]$ ./diskinfo /dev/dsk/c1t15d0
/dev/vg00/lv_cpifs 926844 KB
/dev/vg00/lv_i2nj 4462177 KB
/dev/vg00/lvol1 211224 KB
/dev/vg00/lvol2 failed
/dev/vg00/lvol3 123224 KB
/dev/vg00/lvol4 176480 KB
/dev/vg00/lvol5 278864 KB
/dev/vg00/lvol6 147752 KB
/dev/vg00/lvol7 303280 KB
/dev/vg00/lvol8 1197752 KB

Am I doing something wrong or is there an error?

Thanks and regards
Sonison James

Re: Calculating Disk usage

twang — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:25:04 GMT

Attached sysinfo is a very good utility which allow you to collect hpux information, of course you can collect only PHYSICAL DISK DATA.

Re: Calculating Disk usage

Kenneth_19 — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:27:59 GMT

Hi,

Since /dev/vg00/lvol2 is the primary swap to most HP-UX machines, therefore it is not a filesystem and hence it fails during bdf.

So in other words, those "failed" LVs are not filesystems but raw devices.

Hope this can help.

Kenneth

Re: Calculating Disk usage

twang — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:28:26 GMT

Sorry, I uploaded a wrong script.

Re: Calculating Disk usage

twang — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:29:16 GMT

Re: Calculating Disk usage

Con O'Kelly — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:31:40 GMT

Hi
lvol2 will fail in vg00 as it is primary swap, nothing to worry about.
Sri - thats a nice script.

Should have mentioned my script is only designed if bdf output is on one line.

Cheers
Con

Re: Calculating Disk usage

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:39:45 GMT

Hi Sonison,

If any of the logical volumes is not a filesystem, then it cannot calculate the free space and will display the message "failed". If you don't like the word "failed", replace it with "undetermined" in the script. I wrote it on the fly to give you an idea so I didn't pay much attention to the messages.

-Sri

Re: Calculating Disk usage

Sonison James — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:55:16 GMT

Hello,

Kenneth, Sri and Con thanks for the information, this has solved my problem. Twang thanks for the script.

Regards
Sonison James