Originally posted by: chlawren

Hi all,

I am having a headache because we want to keep the PP size for the systems we are buidling the same size .....

I have installed a standard image to a JS13 blade however where the PP size was normally 32 the install has selected 256 (via nim).

I have two disks in the blade so I have amended the image.data file and specified 32 PP and changed the LP and PP variables however when I run the following command it doesn't appear to be using myimage.data and the system is rebuilt on the alt_disk with PP size of 256 ....

any help would be much appreciated:

1. alt_disk_mksysb -i /tmp/myimage.data -m /tmp/mksysb_temp -d hdisk1 -r

Restoring /image.data from mksysb image.
Checking disk sizes.
Creating cloned rootvg volume group and associated logical volumes.
Creating logical volume alt_hd5
Creating logical volume alt_hd6
Creating logical volume alt_hd8
Creating logical volume alt_hd4
Creating logical volume alt_hd2
Creating logical volume alt_hd9var
Creating logical volume alt_hd3
Creating logical volume alt_hd1
Creating logical volume alt_hd10opt
Creating logical volume alt_pri_dumplv
Creating /alt_inst/ file system.
Creating /alt_inst/home file system.
Creating /alt_inst/opt file system.
Creating /alt_inst/tmp file system.
Creating /alt_inst/usr file system.
Creating /alt_inst/var file system.
Restoring mksysb image to alternate disk(s).
Linking to 64bit kernel.
Changing logical volume names in volume group descriptor area.
Fixing LV control blocks...
forced unmount of /alt_inst/var
forced unmount of /alt_inst/usr
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Originally posted by: chlawren

ok so after some testing and reading (and remembering)

I've worked out that because the disk size is 140GB the smallest PP size due to the MAX PP per PV limit of 1016 is 137 therefore the next available size is 256 MB per pp.
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