reallocating disk space from a secondary lpar to the primary

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Reallocating disk drives is not like memory, processor, or shared devices. This involves physcially moving disk drives from one LPAR to another.

[PMSLIC]

Can anyone tell me how to reallocate disk space from a secondary to a primary lpar on an 820 v5r3

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IIRC, you don't necessarily need to physically move the disks. I think the disk controller for a set of disks can be designated as switchable (or maybe the entire IOP/IOA set that the controller is on). Then all the attached disks can, in effect, be moved to a different partition. You'd lose any data on them, unless you de-configure them to move the data off them to another disk set in the starting partition. But, there's no way to just move 500GB of disk space from one partition to another, at least not yet. Ask again around V6R1 or V7R1....