AIX Storage Management

Note that although each journaled file system requires one 4MB logical partition,

the journaled file system is actually much smaller than this, and can be

expanded to over 8000 512 byte blocks before a second logical partition will be

allocated to it.

8.4.2 How to Use the mksysb Command

This example follows the steps in ″Backing Up Your System″, in the AIX Version

4.1 Installation Guide, to create a backup bootable tape image of rootvg. We can

do this twice:

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One backup with map files.

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One backup without map files.

Since we are concerned about the location of our logical volume copies in our

mirrored rootvg example, we only need to do a backup that will ...