Partition information in whole disk approach

[sreekanthtm]

Hai,

How can I identify different partitions in HPUX, through device file name;in whole disk approach (not LVM)
Like in LINUX it is /dev/hda1 , /dev/hda2

Rgds
Sreekanth

[Luk Vandenbussche]

You can see which volumes are located on a disk with the command

pvdisplay -v /dev/dsk/cxtydz

[sreekanthtm]

dear
Luk Vandenbussche

This command will work on LVM.
But how can I deal with Whole disk approach.
Thank you for your response
Sreekanth

[Raj D.]

Sreekanth ,

You can check with pvdisplay :

Example: How many LV is created on the disk :

# pvdisplay -v /dev/dsk/c1t2d0 | grep "Cur LV"

Cheers,
Raj.

[OldSchool]

This is more like the Sun "disk-slice" method? I think you can do that on some of the newer Itaniums *maybe*.

Never seen an HP-UX box w/o LVM, which is what you seem to be asking for.

[Torsten. · Accepted solution]

The boot disks with hp-ux 11.23 are the only one (regardless the 9.xx systems) using partitions. see man idisk for more info.

you will see a cxtxdxsx device file (note the sx) if the device is using partitions.

[George Liu_4]

I guess he is talking about HFS file system, but now it has been almost entirely superseded by vxfs.
To see a whole disk, just run
ioscan -fnC disk
to see what the cXtXdX is.