HP 3000 Manuals

Performing System Management Tasks

Chapter 9  Managing Disks 

Managing your system and non-system disks provides several key benefits.
Disk management can reduce downtown caused by system installation, system
failure, or disk failure.  With proper disk management, if you need to
install a new system, you need to reload only the system volume set.
Similarly, if the system fails for any reason, you may move removable
disk packs to another system where processing can continue. 

Disk management also provides greater data availability (via data
partitioning) and more efficient use of limited resources.  And finally,
disk management can improve data security.  If you use removable disk
packs, you can take sensitive data offline and place it in a secure
location.  Or, you can use special capabilities to protect data on
nonsystem volumes.

In this chapter, you can find the following topics:

   *   managing master and member volumes

   *   creating a nonsystem volume set

   *   creating the account structure

   *   managing permanent and transient storage

   *   determining free disk space

   *   re-initializing a volume

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