Creating dummy disks on AIX.

by ⋅ 2 Comments

This one is for reference. If you need to add dummy disks to AIX so that you can organise new disks brought in with cfgmgr, you can use (for example):

mkdev -l hdisk2 -p dummy -c disk -t hdisk -w 0000

This will produce an error, but running lsdev -Cc disk will show the created disk.

lspv will not show the disks because they are created as defined.

NOTE : this does NOT work on AIX 6.1!

UPDATE : On AIX 6.1 you have the ability to rename a disk device…

rendev -l hdisk2 -n hdisk3

This example will rename hdisk2 to hdisk3. Nice.

Posted in: AIX ⋅ Tagged:

About troyski

I'm a freelance UNIX engineer working in the UK. I'm married to Tina and between us we have six children. I'm a bit of an Apple fan boy, and all the Windows machines in the house are a thing of the past now.

2 thoughts on “Creating dummy disks on AIX.”

  1. GaryC on July 21, 2010 at 12:17 pm said:

    You can give the “-d” flag on the mkdev command to define, then you won’t get the cfgmgr error.

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Post navigation