how to check free disks & create the file system in RHL AS-4

[praveen..]

Hi,
How can i check the free disks in red hat linux AS-4.

then i need to create the Volume group, logical volume & file systems.

suppose I have to create the /data/oracle file systems of 500 GB under VG05 and logical volume name is data_oracle.


Please let me know the step by step commands,
Thanks

[Huc_1]

To check free space use the following command as root

fdisk -l

Jean-Pierre

[Sergejs Svitnevs]

steb-by-step manual you can find here:
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/009jul05/features/lvm2/#commands

Regards

[Ivan Ferreira]

You can also use system-config-lvm to manage LVM. If you want to be sure how much free space you have on your disk, post the output of fdisk -l, and vgdisplay -v.

[praveen..]

is there any documentation for red hat linux AS-4 with IBM p550g server.

for :

- Bind server to NIS
- Create local users
- Build file systems in accordance with the server build document
- Install Oracle client
- Install Perl Oracle connectors DBI/DBD
- Install GNU Tools as defined in the server build document
- Install SyncSort DMExpress


please suugest any good documents for these activities.

my server :IBM p550g
OS: red hat linux AS 4

[praveen..]

please suggest

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

Most of your list is hardware independent.
For RHEL docs check
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/

for Oracle: http://www.puschitz.com/
and
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/index.html

Rgds,
Vitaly