vparresources.5 (2010 09)

vparresources(5) vparresources(5)

Table III.e. Task: -a io:path[:

attr1[,attr2]]

Explanation Adds the I/O resource at path to the vPar.

If attributes are speciﬁed, they are associated

with the resource. If the vPar already owns the

resource, any speciﬁed attributes are added to

its conﬁguration.

This option only adds any speciﬁed attributes.

The state of unspeciﬁed attributes is not changed.

Value path: A text string of the form returned

by the ioscan command,

such as "0/0/6"

attr: One or many of these case-insensitive

attribute strings ALTBOOT, TAPE

and BOOT.

If more than one are speciﬁed, then they

must be separated by a comma (",").

Usage The target vPar must not be running.

Restrictions

The I/O resource must either be unassigned or

(when adding attributes to an already assigned

resource) be assigned to the target vPar.

Usage At most one device can be assigned the ALTBOOT,

Guidelines TAPE and BOOT attributes. Assigning one of

these attributes to a device silently deletes it from

its former device, if any.

Caution: You should assign attributes to appropriate

devices, but this is not checked. For example,

ALTBOOT and BOOT should be assigned to a disk or

DVD and TAPE should be assigned to a tape device.

Failure to do this may result in an unbootable

partition.

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