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Curious; does anyone know the maximum size of hd6.

  • 1.  Curious; does anyone know the maximum size of hd6.

    Posted Wed May 17, 2006 08:12 AM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    At our office we have an discussion going on about the maximum size of hd6 in AIX level 5.2. Who knows...

    Thanks in advance....


  • 2.  Re: Curious; does anyone know the maximum size of hd6.

    Posted Wed May 17, 2006 11:05 AM

    Originally posted by: nh4aix


    There really isn't a maximum size for hd6... it is just a logical volume, so it is constrained by whatever LVM contraints there are on Logical volumes.. as for the largest paging space supported (as this is what hd6 is used for), I know of no known maximum... there are lots of guidelines as to how big your paging space should be and those varying by AIX releases... most recently with AIX 5.2 & 5.3, paging should be large enough to hold the computational portion of memory...