IBM General Parallel File System for AIX: Administration and Programming Reference

Managing disks

The disk related tasks performed on a GPFS file system include:

1. Specifying disk descriptors
2. Adding disks to a file system
3. Deleting disks from a file system
4. Replacing disks in a GPFS file system
5. Displaying GPFS disk states
6. Changing GPFS disk states and parameters