December 2003
Intermediate to advanced
458 pages
9h 3m
English
book
Deploying Linux on IBM eServer pSeries Clusters
by Dino Quintero, Prabhakar Attaluri, Tomas Baublys, Xinghong He, Chin Yau Lee, Francois Thomas
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Task-specific command comparison
Table A-3 compares task-specific commands for AIX and Linux.
| Task | AIX | Linux |
|---|---|---|
| Listing physical volumes | lspv | pvdisplay |
| List partitions in a disk | lspv -l <disk> | fdisk -l <disk> |
| List volume groups | lsvg | vgdisplay |
| Create volume group | mkvg | vgcreate |
| Remove volume group | rmvg | vgremove |
| Add physical volume to volume groups | extendvg | vgextend |
| Remove VG definition | exportvg | vgexport |
| Remove physical volume from volume group | reducevg | vgreduce |
| Import volume groups | importvg | vgimport |
| Activate volume group | varyonvg | vgchange |
| List logical volume | lslv | lvdisplay |
| Create logical volumes | mklv | lvcreate |
| Grow file systems with LV | chfs | resize_reiserfs, resize2fs |
| Shrink file system | - | resize_reiserfs, resize2fs |
| Paging/Swap space | lsps -a | procinfo cat /proc/swaps ... |