AIX running is 5.3
Two PVs hdisk0 and hdisk1
One VG which is rootvg,
When OS was initially setup, all the LVs had 2 copies
one on hdisk0 and one on hdisk1
But lately the consumption grows fast suddenly and is nearly
full. So for temporary measure, would like to make some of the
LVs (where user data resides) have 1 copy only , for example

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29 novembre 2009 : AIX 4.1 diagnostic/installation floppies

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29 novembre 2009 : RS/6000 Redbook Collection

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27 novembre 2009 : sudo mailx

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20 novembre 2009 : openssh with gssapi

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18 novembre 2009 : Socks for AIX

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14 novembre 2009 : multiple copies to print using qprt command

We have a couple of printers attached with serial cables to our AIX 5L system. One printer is network capable so I have prepared a queue for TCP/IP printing. The queue works but every time a print job is submitted with -N copies, only one copy is sent to the printer. I use the "lpr" (...)

12 novembre 2009 : Question: How to check that memory page is filled by zeros when a process gets it in first time?

I have to check whether AIX fills physical memory pages by zeros when they are given for a new process (or may be when they are freed from an address space, but it's hardly probable). In other words when a process gets a new memory page, this one must be cleaned. I've solved (...)

12 novembre 2009 : Virtual Fiber and Virtual SCSI?

Guys Now as we have virtual fiber concept on Power6 , what is the best way to allow client partitions to access SAN based disks through VIO? I mean whether to use virtual scsi ( old way) or to use virtual fiber ( NPIV)? Any guidelines from IBM ? (...)

10 novembre 2009 : emxdrv0

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9 novembre 2009 : segmentation fault in svn 1.4.6 on AIX 5.3

I've set SVN up on a few machines, and they have all been good. However, on this one machine, I get: Segmentation fault(coredump) Type 'help' for help. [using memory image in core] reading symbolic information ... Segmentation fault in check_sbcs at 0xd1a85f14 ($t1) (...)

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7 novembre 2009 : Problem with Console and graphics 7029-6c3 and AIX 6.1

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6 novembre 2009 : Question: Linux for Pseries 615 RS6000

Which debian based linux distro supports power4+ systems? Typically I use Linux Mint but don't think they have a port for power. I enjoy AIX but may also install a 64 bit Linux on my RS6000 as well. Please recommend a Linux 64 bit distro that also supports KDE v4 and Gnome. PS - (...)

5 novembre 2009 : Moving RS/6000 595 system to new machine or emulator?

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5 novembre 2009 : Any risk with running chvg -t on live system

I need to add a 300GB volume to a volume group. extendvg tells me I need to increase the number of PPs per PV using chvg -t. What bothers me is that the message says to use the command to "attempt to change" this value. Researching it, it looks like that wording is there because there (...)

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2 novembre 2009 : AIX 5.3: access existing file gives ENOENT

I ran truss on a running java program, and noticed that the access system call was returning "Err#2 ENOENT" for existing files, files that were succesfully "accessed" earlier in the same program, and later on. Is there any reasonable explanation for this behaviour? In the truss output (...)

2 novembre 2009 : Help: Loud fans

Is there an AIX command or another way to manually turn down, turn off, and turn on CPU and power supply fans in a 7029-6c3 pseries 615 system? Unfortunately, The system will not boot into AIX without fans ( which sound like jet engines). With fans removed, the system only boots into (...)

31 octobre 2009 : What's lasts OS to use on RS 6000 7025 F50?

I've got an IBM RS 6000 7025 F50 which is running AIX 4.3 or there abouts (not sure of the exact version. It might be 4.3.3.) What's the latest version of AIX I can stick on this machine? I was given a set of AIX 5.1 CD-R's some time back, but I've seen a set of 8 CDs for (...)

31 octobre 2009 : Buying+sell+rent+Real+Estate+plots+bangloaws Gulshan Johar Dha Clifton North-Nazimabad in all Karachi+Lahore+Islamabad+others+cityes

Buying+sell+rent+Real+Estate+p lots+bangloaws Gulshan Johar Dha Clifton North-Nazimabad in all Karachi+Lahore+Islamabad+other s+cityes [link]

31 octobre 2009 : agregate volumes

Hi How can I aggregate free space on disk group after deleted lun on DS series 3xxxx or 4xxxx, I would like to recover defragmeted space on my disk group.Thanks for advice. SK

31 octobre 2009 : Strange behaviour of cron

Hi together maybe it's only a syntax error, but the following find runs fine on commandline but when starting via cron, it fails find /dir/dir/dir/ -name file -mtime +2 -exec mv /dir/dir/dir/file \; What is wrong here? Thx in advance (...)

31 octobre 2009 : update VIOS virtual ethernet adapter (SEA) without rebooting

Hello everybody, this could seem odd but it is not. I have a complex environment composed mostly by p570 POWER6 machines. Each machine has 2 VIOS (last update of 1.5) that gives vSCSI and vETH connectivity to LPARs. VIOS are configured to guarantee redundancy (control channel for SEA (...)

31 octobre 2009 : Recommendation about C++ compiler flags

Problem when compiling Firefox 3.5.4 on AIX 5.1ML9 the Compiler crashes when both flags are given together: -qobjmodel=ibm -qeh not matter if -g or -O2 with XLC/C++ 7.0 with Jun09 fixpack. [link]> xlC_r -qlanglvl=extended -qobjmodel=ibm -qeh -o nsHTMLLinkElement.o -c (...)

30 octobre 2009 : Help: gxt6500p and pseries 7029-6c3 (aix 5.3 or 6.1 )

Is the gxt6500p or gxt4500p compatible with the 7029-6c3 ( pseries 615 )? Aix Diags lists a SCAN_CHRP error when the gxt6500p card is installed. At this point, I am not sure if it is a bad gxt6500p video card or if it is a system compatibility issue? If the gxt6500p is not compatible, (...)

29 octobre 2009 : VIO server and increasing VGs

I have VIO server installed with two AIX 5.3 mLPARs. Each mLPAR has 10G assigned. Unfortunately, this isnt enough. the mLPARs backing devices are logical volumes on the VIO server. I increaded these LVs to 17Gb each. On the mLPARs if i use bootinfo - hdisk0 i se the devices as 17G, (...)