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How to Check Raw Device Size in AIX

There're several ways to check the size of a raw device before creating a disk group in ASM.

Getconf

We can use getconf DISK_SIZE to check the size of a raw device.

[root@primary01 /]# getconf DISK_SIZE /dev/ASM_MGMT
204800

The returned size is in Megabyte (MB), therefore, the size of the raw device is 200GB.

Bootinfo

We can also use bootinfo -s to get the size information of the device.

[root@primary01 /]# bootinfo -s ASM_MGMT
204800

The returned size is also in Megabyte (MB). Please note that, we don't prefix /dev/ this time.

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