AIX Storage Management

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# mkvgdata -m VGname

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This will cause map files to be created for the volume group. The file

/tmp/vgdata/VGname/VGname.data

can then be edited to alter the size of any file

systems in the volume group to that required. If this is done, the

savevg

command must be executed without the -i or -m flags as these will cause the

changes to be overwritten. The

savevg command should then be executed as

follows:

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# savevg -mf/dev/rmt0 VGname

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-i This causes the generation of the image.data file mentioned in the

section on backing up the system volume group.

-m This flag causes map files to be written with the backup data to

enable the exact replication of ...