Numerous files in LIF area

[Mihails Nikitins]

Hello,

After adding a new disk to my system and creating a mirror, I have noticed that the older disk has a lot of files in LIF area. The second disk has only the most essensial LIF files (I have created them by 'mkboot' and 'mkboot -a').

Disk 1

# lifls -l /dev/dsk/c0t5d0
volume ISL10 data size 7984 directory size 8 96/05/28 04:10:13
filename type start size implement created
===============================================================
ODE -12960 584 1216 0 01/01/17 16:19:47
MAPFILE -12277 1800 128 0 01/01/17 16:19:47
SYSLIB -12280 1928 342 0 01/01/17 16:19:47
CONFIGDATA -12278 2272 209 0 01/01/17 16:19:47
SLMOD -12276 2488 132 0 01/01/17 16:19:47
SLDEV -12276 2624 201 0 01/01/17 16:19:47
SLDRIVERS -12276 2832 452 0 01/01/17 16:19:47
SLSCSI -12276 3288 116 0 01/01/17 16:19:47
MAPPER -12279 3408 229 0 01/01/17 16:19:47
IOTEST -12279 3640 208 0 01/01/17 16:19:47
PERFVER -12279 3848 197 0 01/01/17 16:19:47
PVCU -12801 4048 64 0 01/01/17 16:19:47
SSINFO -12286 4112 2 0 01/01/17 17:57:22
ISL -12800 4120 240 0 96/05/28 04:10:13
AUTO -12289 4360 1 0 96/05/28 04:10:13
HPUX -12928 4368 848 0 96/05/28 04:10:13
PAD -12290 5216 1652 0 96/05/28 04:10:14
LABEL BIN 6872 8 0 01/01/17 11:21:04

Disk 2
# lifls -l /dev/dsk/c0t8d0
volume c0t8d0 data size 7984 directory size 8 101/01/17 18:27:27
filename type start size implement created
===============================================================
ISL -12800 584 240 0 96/05/28 04:10:13
AUTO -12289 824 1 0 96/05/28 04:10:13
HPUX -12928 832 848 0 96/05/28 04:10:13
PAD -12290 1680 1652 0 96/05/28 04:10:14
LABEL BIN 3336 8 0 01/01/18 13:52:53



Questions

1. Where to get information about purpose of LIF files (besides ISL, HPUX, AUTO)? What utilities have created them? The files are not the same in different HP-UX systems.

2. Is it necessary to create all missing LIF files on the second disk? (I would use lifcp for this purpose).

Many thanks in advance for your comments!

[John Palmer]

Hi,

The additional LIF files are diagnostic utilities provided by HP.

You can install them with the following command:-

mkboot -b /usr/sbin/diag/lif/updatediaglif -p ISL -p AUTO -p HPUX -p LABEL /dev/rdsk/c?t?d?

Regards,
John

[Mihails Nikitins]

Thank you, John! Your posting has helped me greatly.

However, I still cannot find good documentation on this staff. This utilities seem to belong to Offline Diagnostics Environment, but there is few information about them on http://docs.hp.com//hpux/diag/index.html. I'd like to get at least a list of files included in the package.
Besides it, I' m not sure that all files belong to diagnostic utilities. For instance, there was a file named 'PAD', that had already existed before copying diagnostic utilities. I pereserved it with '-p' option.

[John Palmer · Accepted solution]

The standard LIF area files are:-

ISL - the Initial System Loader
AUTO - the autoexecute file
HPUX - the HP-UX specific initial system loader
PAD - the space left over in the 2Mb boot area

The rest are offline diagnostic utilities that can be booted instead of HP-UX.

Regards,
John

[Mihails Nikitins]

Thanks, now it's clear. It seems to me that command
mkboot -b updatediaglif ... -p PAD ...
did not harm LIF area integrity.

Best regards,
Mihails

[Tracey Hammer]

What is the LABEL file and where can I find descriptions of all of the LIF files.