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000-221 · Question #118

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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Question

Which command is used to change the reserve policy of a disk?

Options

  • Achdev
  • Bchpv
  • Cchvg
  • Dchattr

How the community answered

(31 responses)
  • A
    71% (22)
  • B
    3% (1)
  • C
    16% (5)
  • D
    10% (3)

Why each option

In AIX, disk reserve policy is a device attribute managed through the device configuration subsystem and changed with the `chdev` command.

AchdevCorrect

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.

Bchpv

`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.

Cchvg

`chvg` modifies volume group-level attributes such as quorum settings, maximum physical partitions, or big VG format, not individual disk device attributes.

Dchattr

`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

Topics

#chdev#disk reserve policy#hdisk attributes#ODM

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