Verifying the Maximum size of HP-UX Filesystem

[Alamat]

Hi Good day,

Is there any command, to display or to echo the maximum filesystem of an HP-UX OS? Specs greatly shown from "http://docs.hp.com/en/5900-0547/5900-0547.pdF", and yet I still want to inquire if there's any command to likely show these on shell, if ever there's any, thanks..

[River Tarnell · Accepted solution]

There's no command to show the *supported* maximum file size, because it's impossible: the supported limit can be different from the technical limit.

For example, let's say you install VxFS (JFS) 5.0, and the maximum supported filesystem size is 32TB. You might be able to create a 64TB filesystem, and it *might* work fine, but HP/Symantec have not certified the software with such a large filesystem, and it won't be supported. But a year later, HP might certify the same software version for a 64TB filesystem; so, without any software changes, you can now create a 64TB filesystem and know it'll work fine. Any command that tried to print the maximum filesystem size would now be out of date, because the software hasn't changed.

(I made those numbers up, since I don't have a real example on hand, but the idea is the same.)

Is there any particular reason you don't want to rely on the published documentation for this?

[Alamat]

doing remote administration here. our client just insisting to have info from the box itself aside from the docs. thanks for the prompt reply.

[Alamat]

thanks