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This section shows how to create a new volume group and add a
disk drive to it, using example screens from an HP 800 system
running HP-UX 11.00.
Definitions of
Common Terms
The following terms will be used throughout this section:
• Volume Group. Volume groups are HP-UX's method for
dividing and allocating disk storage space. Volume groups
can be used to partition a disk drive into smaller logical
volumes (see below). There is a default limit of 10 volume
groups per system; see the HP-UX System Administration
Tasks manual for information on increasing this limit. The
number of logical volumes in a volume group is limited to
255.
• Logical Volume. Each volume group is divided into logical
volumes, which can be accessed as either character or block
devices and which contain their own filesystems.
• Physical Volume. In volume groups, the physical disk
drives are designated as physical volumes.
• Physical Extent. Each physical volume is divided into units
called physical extents; these units are 4 MB by default, and
can range in size from 1 MB to 256 MB. The size of physical
extents is a property of the volume group and is the same for
all physical volumes in the volume group.
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