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5.10 Exercises

The following exercises will help you explore these topics in greater detail.

1. List all the physical volumes, volume groups, logical volumes, physical partitions and file systems on your system.

2. Determine which disks the rootvg volume group resides on.

3. Add a new physical volume to your system and check to make sure the drive is available.

4. Create a volume group named datavg on this new physical volume.

5. Create a file system named datafiles.

6. Unmount the datafiles file system.

7. Create a mirror of datavg.

8. Determine whether you have a disk quorum.

9. Increase the size of the file system datafiles.

10. Reduce the file system datafiles.

11. List the disks that a file system, datafiles, and a volume group, datavg, reside on.

12. Remove the mirror of datavg and check to make sure the device isn't mirrored.

13. Remove the datavg volume group.

14. Create multiple jfslogs on several PVs.

15. How do you erase a file that is being locked by an application?

16. Run extendvg to extend a volume group. What needs to be run first?

17. Stripe data to spread I/O.

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