Re: [SLE] HD problem...

From: Alexandr Malusek (Alexandr.Malusek_at_imv.liu.se)
Date: 07/30/04

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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 21:12:59 +0200

    "Patrick B. O'Brien" <pobrien@doit.nv.gov> writes:

    > How do you init a new hd? In aix I run cfgmgr. Is it fdisk?

    There are many ways how to configure things but a typical single disk
    PC configuration has a master boot record (MBR) and a partition table
    in the first disk sector. The partition table can be written by
    fdisk, cfdisk or other programs. MBR is written during Grub or LILO
    installation or can be copied via dd. The rest of the disk are
    partitions with filesystems.

    I think AIX uses volume management by default. LVM and EVMS have
    similar function in Linux. The Administration guide describes how to
    handle disks in this case. 

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