partition file in rx series server

[seenivasan]

Hi Team,

i have small doubt on rx servers creating partition file.while we are executing "vi /tmp/partitionfile" this file is already created by os.or we are creating time-being for booting mirroring and replacing time.

Regards,

Seenivasan p

[Michal Kapalka (mikap) · Accepted solution]

hi,

the file need to be created manually if you like to mirror ( LVM )the system disk inside the vg00.

for example check this site :

http://deepees.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/hp-ux-mirroring-the-boot-disk-itanium/

mikap

[Torsten.]

This is the input file for the idisk partition utility (can have any name, but this name is used in most docs).

It is not system generated.

It usually looks like this:

3
EFI 500MB
HPUX 100%
HPSP 400MB

[P Arumugavel]

Hi Seenivasan,

This is a file which define yor partiton decription. Name of the file can be any. But the contents is the c.

It is not system generated file. would be created manually while Mirroring HP-UX root disk on Itanium-based systems.

The following is the procedure shows how to mirror the root disk Mirroring HP-UX root disk on Itanium-based systems.

http://h21007.www2.hp.com/portal/site/dspp/menuitem.863c3e4cbcdc3f3515b49c108973a801?ciid=00089099cee021109099cee02110275d6e10RCRD

Rgds....

[Ismail Azad]

Hi,

Yes it is created manually as the disk on your server should be marked as bootable it should contain the slices of the integrity boot disk and it's sizes within the logical partitions of the device file and as said by torsten, it is used by the idisk utility for displaying the contents of the partition table. This is one outstanding difference between mirroring a PARISC and integrity server as a PARISC server does not have these boot disk sections. However, you would see that in a lot of documentation, this file is named as /tmp/idf but can be named as per convenience.

Regards
Ismail Azad

[Manix]

This file is manually created and used by
"idisk" command to partition the IA disk into
three slices so that we can mirror & makes it bootable.

1 ) #cat < /tmp/partitionfile
>3
>EFI500MB
>HPUX100%
>HPSP400MB
>EOF

2 )#idisk -wf /tmp/partitionfile /dev/rdisk/disk2
idisk version:1.31
**********************WARNING***********************
If you continue you may destroy all data on this disk.
Do you wish to continue (yes/no)?yes<-- Answer"yes" and not "y"

3).Create device files needed for the new partitions.

#insf -eC disk