AIX Storage Management

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smit mkvg does not provide the -m flag to set the maximum size of the

physical volume. This flag will determine how many physical partitions are

used, it uses a default value of 1016 partitions.

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smit mkvg always uses the -f flag to force creation of the volume group.

For a new volume group to be successfully added to the system using the

mkvg

command, the root file system should have between 1 to 2MB of free space.

Check this using the

df command. This free space is required because a file is

written in the directory

/etc/vg each time a new volume group is added. It is

also important to note that the

-f flag will allow a physical volume which still ...