Enabling automatic overflow recovery for a basic disk pool

 

If a basic disk pool fills up and the data in the basic disk pool overflows into the system disk pool, the basic disk pool is said to be in an overflow state. If you enable automatic overflow recovery, you can recover the overflow data to the system disk pool by restarting your system.

If you have created sufficient space in the basic disk pool, the system will copy the overflow data to the disk pool from the system disk pool. If automatic overflow recovery is disabled, you need to manually restart your system to the dedicated service tools (DST) mode and recover the overflow data using DST from the command prompt.

To enable automatic overflow recovery, follow these steps:

1. In iSeries™ Navigator, expand My Connections (or your active environment).

2. Expand the System i™ you want to examine,Configuration and Service > Hardware > Disk Units > Disk Pools.

3. Select the disk pools on which you want to enable automatic overflow recovery.

4. Right-click a selected disk pool and select Enable Overflow Recovery.

5. Follow the instructions on the resulting dialog box.

 

Parent topic:

Managing disk pools