Disk Information In AIX

wakaley · 08-06-2010, 08:16 AM

Hello everyone,
I am new to AIX. I am looking to fetch some information related Hard Disk.

I am not able to get CHS information and the bytes per sector information on the AIX (4,5,6).

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks
Wakaley Nikhil
Sigpro Systems Pvt.Ltd.
Pune.

EricTRA · 08-09-2010, 12:43 AM

Hello and Welcome to LinuxQuestions,

You can use

Code:

lscfg

to show hardware connected to your system and then

Code:

lscfg -vl <diskname>

to show more information about your harddisk.

Other type of information regarding partitions and such on your disk can be found out using:

Code:

lspv <diskname>

If your looking for input/output stats then use:

Code:

iostat -d
iostat -D

Hope that helps.

Kind regards,

Eric

scottn · 08-14-2010, 01:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wakaley

Hello everyone,
I am new to AIX. I am looking to fetch some information related Hard Disk.

I am not able to get CHS information and the bytes per sector information on the AIX (4,5,6).

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks
Wakaley Nikhil
Sigpro Systems Pvt.Ltd.
Pune.

Hello.

Why do you need to know that?

AIX uses - what for me is - the finest LVM there is.

Beyond specifying what part of the disk to use when creating a logical volume, there's not much you can do by knowing what part of the disk anything is on, and such information about C, H or S characteristics are is meaningless.

wakaley · 08-16-2010, 01:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EricTRA

Hello and Welcome to LinuxQuestions,

You can use

Code:

lscfg

to show hardware connected to your system and then

Code:

lscfg -vl <diskname>

to show more information about your harddisk.

Other type of information regarding partitions and such on your disk can be found out using:

Code:

lspv <diskname>

If your looking for input/output stats then use:

Code:

iostat -d
iostat -D

Hope that helps.

Kind regards,

Eric

Thanks Eric,

I tried the commands but could not get the data i was looking for.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Wakaley Nikhil
Sigpro Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Pune

wakaley · 08-16-2010, 01:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scottn

Hello.

Why do you need to know that?

AIX uses - what for me is - the finest LVM there is.

Beyond specifying what part of the disk to use when creating a logical volume, there's not much you can do by knowing what part of the disk anything is on, and such information about C, H or S characteristics are is meaningless.

Thanks.
I know but that was the requirement in my case and i was looking for way to get it if at all it can be extracted

Regards,
Wakaley Nikhil
Sigpro Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Pune