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Which command is used to change the reserve policy of a disk?
The correct answer is A. chdev. In AIX, disk reserve policy is a device attribute managed through the device configuration subsystem and changed with the chdev command.
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Which command is used to change the reserve policy of a disk?
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- Achdev
- Bchpv
- Cchvg
- Dchattr
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In AIX, disk reserve policy is a device attribute managed through the device configuration subsystem and changed with the `chdev` command.
The `chdev` command modifies device attributes in AIX's Object Data Manager (ODM). The reserve policy of a disk is stored as a device attribute and is changed using `chdev -l <diskname> -a reserve_policy=<value>`, which can set it to no_reserve, single_path, or PR_shared among others.
`chpv` modifies physical volume characteristics within a volume group such as mirror pool assignment and active/inactive state, but does not manage the disk device's reserve policy attribute.
`chvg` modifies volume group-level attributes such as quorum settings, maximum physical partitions, or big VG format, not individual disk device attributes.
`chattr` modifies extended attributes of files and directories in the filesystem, not physical disk device configuration attributes.
Concept tested: AIX disk device reserve policy configuration
Source: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.3?topic=c-chdev-command
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