Create FS > 1TB - hp-ux 11i - vxfs

[Thomas Greig]

Gents.
We have purchased a satabeast with 42disks, potential size of 42TB. I have been reading about JFS filesystem so create bigger sizes than 1TB but I have still not been able to create this (by using SAM).

OnlineJFS B.11.11.04 Online features of the VxFS File System
9000/785/C8000

[Ivan Krastev]

Try to change PE size and max PE per VG.

Can you try from command line and post the errors ?


regards,
ivan

[Hasan Atasoy]

hi ;

you need to use vxvm in order to support fs greated than 2TB.

Hasan

[jaivinder · Accepted solution]

Hi,

For this you need to provide the PE's size, the no's of PE's and the maximum no of the PV's while creating the VG.

vgcreate -s 32 -p 255 -e 65535 /dev/vg01 /dev/dsk/cxtxdx

While creatiing the filesystem enable the largefile support.

newfs -o largefiles

[Thomas Greig]

Thank you very much, specially Jaivinder!
Here is what I did to make > TB system. (I have found many Q's but not many
By following the last post I managed to find the correct commands.

Create FS bigger than 1TB:
mknod /dev/vg01/group c 64 0x020000
vgcreate -s 32 -p 32 -e
65535 /dev/vg01 /dev/dsk/c5t13d0
lvcreate -L 1907072 -n lv_multidata vg01
newfs -F vxfs -o largefiles /dev/vg01/rlv_multidata

Points on their way

[Thomas Greig]

lost some of the sentence there I see..
I've found many Q's regarding this issue but not too many answers with a step-to-step. it might not be 100% correct but atleast it makes easier to find the solution for ppl.

This thread was also very helpful:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1054244