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Quickly and Easily Convert Between Storage Size Units - KB, MB, GB, TB & 512 byte blocks
A very common task in the IT industry is needing to convert between storage size units - bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, etc. To make things even more complicated, the POSIX standard also specifies that the default output for commands like "df" and "du" must be in 512 byte block sizes. This posting will cover a very simple and easy way to quickly convert between any of these units. A kilobyte/megabyte/gigabyte versus a kibibyte/mebibyte/gibibyte Historically there has been a... [More]
Tags: aix linux storage |
Deciphering AIX Volume Group limitations and types
Modern versions of AIX have three types of Volume Groups: Original, Big, and Scalable.
In my opinion, for any new volume groups you are creating you should always use scalable unless you will have the need to export the volume group and import it on very old versions of AIX. Scalable volume groups have very few limitations when compared to big and original volume groups. Unfortunately there are a ton of original and big volume groups out there in the world, and it can be very tricky to understand their limitations. The main... [More]
Tags: lvm perl volumegroup storage aix |
