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 ====== AIX OS alternate disk operations ======
+===== Clone rootvg =====
+To clone the running rootvg to hdisk3 and hdisk4 (in case of mirrored rootvg), and execute update_all on all updates from /updates. Disks hdisk3 and 4 must be empty
+<cli prompt='>'>
+root@nimmig /root> alt_disk_copy -d "hdisk3 hdisk4" -b update_all -l /updates
+</cli>
+Use flags:
+  * -B: do not update the bootlist
+  * -g: Skips disk bootability checks
+  alt_disk_copy -d <hdisk to clone rootvg>             this will clone the rootvg to the specified disk
+  alt_disk_copy -e /etc/exclude.rootvg -d <hdisk>      this will use the exclude list during the cloning
+  alt_disk_copy -T -d <hdisk>                          it will convert jfs to jfs2 on the new target disk
+  alt_rootvg_op -X <cloned rootvg to destroy>          this will destroy the cloned rootvg (alt_rootvg_op -X altinst_rootvg)
+  alt_rootvg_op -W -d <hdisk>                          this will wake up a disk (cloned filesystems will be mounted with prefix /alt_)
+  alt_rootvg_op -S -t <hdisk>                          this will put cloned rootvg to sleep (before that it will do a bosboot)
+Use a custom image.data
+  # alt_disk_copy -d hdiskX -i /image.data -B
 ===== Upgrade an OS disk =====

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