Lost Minidisk Space

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3 total messages Started by K R Maxson Sun, 02 Aug 1992 02:17

#29

Author: K R Maxson
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1992 02:17

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I have 168000 blocks of inaccessible space on one of the disks in my
RT.  Here is what the minidisks page for the drive looks like:

MD   MD    MD    Block  Number  MD      Mount		Auto Auto  R/W
Name IODN  Type  Size   Blocks  Locatn  Directory	IPL  Mount Status
hd0  16384 AIX   512    35000   B       /		Y     Y    R/W
hd1  16386 AIX   512    20000   B       /u      	N     Y    R/W
     20001 AIX   512    168000  B,M,E
Available Space  512    560     E	********************************

How do I get this disk space back?  Apparently I can only change, delete,
etc. partitions by name.  I'm running AIX 2.1.  Help!

Please reply by email to maxson@unicorn.cerl.uiuc.edu.

Re: Lost Minidisk Space

#30

Author: Eliot Wilson
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 13:53

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In article <BsC3pz.756@news.cso.uiuc.edu> maxson@cerl.uiuc.edu (K R Maxson) writes:
>I have 168000 blocks of inaccessible space on one of the disks in my
>RT.  Here is what the minidisks page for the drive looks like:
>
>MD   MD    MD    Block  Number  MD      Mount		Auto Auto  R/W
>Name IODN  Type  Size   Blocks  Locatn  Directory	IPL  Mount Status
>hd0  16384 AIX   512    35000   B       /		Y     Y    R/W
>hd1  16386 AIX   512    20000   B       /u      	N     Y    R/W
>     20001 AIX   512    168000  B,M,E
>Available Space  512    560     E	********************************
>
>How do I get this disk space back?  Apparently I can only change, delete,
>etc. partitions by name.  I'm running AIX 2.1.  Help!
>
>Please reply by email to maxson@unicorn.cerl.uiuc.edu.

Use the mdrc command it's "minidisk recovery" it should recover the minidisks,
and give it a name, and then you can delete it as you wish.
Good luck.

-ELiot
-- 
Eliot Wilson         Univ. of Cincinnati      UG Computer Science
   A-in't	     IBM Cincinnati AIX Open Systems Solution Team
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   X-citing          ewilson@ucunix.san.uc.edu      supewils@DETVMIC5

Re: Lost Minidisk Space

#32

Author: Chuck Karish
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 21:52

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In article <BsC3pz.756@news.cso.uiuc.edu> maxson@cerl.uiuc.edu
(K R Maxson) writes:
>I have 168000 blocks of inaccessible space on one of the disks in my
>RT [ ... ]
>
>How do I get this disk space back?  Apparently I can only change, delete,
>etc. partitions by name.  I'm running AIX 2.1.  Help!

Boot the system from the VRM installation diskette
and use the VMF (VRM Maintenance Facility) tools
to rename the minidisk.  See Appendix A of the
"IBM RT PC Provblem Determination Guide", Software
Problems section.
--

    Chuck Karish          karish@mindcraft.com
    (415) 323-9000 x117   karish@forel.stanford.edu

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