[estuart]

We have a logical volume on the VIO server that contains software updates for the LPARs and need to know how to mount the existing file system on the LV on an AIX partition. We have mapped the LV, and the AIX partition sees the new drive, but we do not know how to mount the existing file system that's on the drive. How is this done?

[Frans]

do
lspv
if

[Frans]

sorry
lspv
if the disk is showing
hdisk none None then tis can not be done
if the disk is showing
hdiskxx 00fffxxxxblabla None
this is a pvid
Then you can import the volume group

importvg -y datavg hdiskxx

[estuart]

Thanks...

The server sees the drive and we've gotten past the volume group part.

# lspv
hdisk0 00c6ef6f1dce7f6c rootvg active
hdisk1 00c6ef6fb37d1497 hdisk1vg active
# lsvg
rootvg
hdisk1vg

How do we mount the existing file system on hdisk1vg?

[Frans]

do lsvg |lsvg -il
then make all the mountpoints you see
then mount

[ross.mather]

Above is correct:

importvg -y namevg hdiskx
lsvg -l namevg

and then create and mount filesystems.

However why not either share the software updates via nfs or else create a NIM server to pass the updates around instead of doing this? Sometimes its unavoidable - but the more often you change a VIO config the more often you have a chance to make mistakes....

[estuart]

Our first thought was NFS, but our networking team does not approve of its usage. NIM would also be a good idea, but right now we only have a few AIX LPARs and do not have a partition for the NIM server. We have mostly Linux based LPARs.

[duke900ssd]

If you have a 'spare' Linux partition you could use NIMOL:

Using NIM on Linux
pSeries and AIX Information Center

Google:
site:ibm.com linux nim
for further info.