30 Jul
2004
30 Jul
'04
19:12
"Patrick B. O'Brien"
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. -- A.M.