MINIDISKS(8,C) AIX Commands Reference MINIDISKS(8,C) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- minidisks PURPOSE Adds, deletes, changes and displays minidisks. SYNTAX minidisks ---| DESCRIPTION The minidisks command lets you add, delete, show, or change characteristics of a minidisk. To use the minidisks command, you must be a member of the system group or have superuser authority. You may change minidisks only when the primary site of the root file system is in the cluster. Minidisks cannot be used to allocate dump or swap disk partitions. The dumpcfg command has been provided to add and delete dump and swap disk partitions. The minidisks command is menu-driven. For information on how to use it, see Installing and Customizing the AIX Operating System. Note: The maximum number of blocks is 2097152. (This would be a file system with 2 gigabytes.) FILES /dev Directory. /tmp Directory. /etc/ddi Directory. /etc/master Default master configuration file. /etc/system Default system configuration file. /etc/mdkaf Default minidisk configuration file. /etc/filesystems Descriptions of mountable file systems. /etc/minidisks.log Log of mkfs results when executed by the minidisks command. RELATED INFORMATION In this book: "dumpcfg", "mkdir," "mdrc," and "fixnmvtoc." See the discussion of minidisks in Installing and Customizing the AIX Operating System. See Chapter 18 of the AIX Programming Tools and Interfaces for general information on using commands in an MBCS environment. Processed April 1, 1992 MINIDISKS(8,C) 1