Veritas Volume Manager 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

A large number of vxassist keywords and attributes are available for use.
See the vxassist(1M) manual page.
The simplest way to create a volume is to use default attributes.
Creating a volume on any disk
More complex volumes can be created with specific attributes by controlling how
vxassist uses the available storage space.
See “Creating a volume on specific disks” on page 283.
Setting default values for vxassist
The default values that the vxassist command uses may be specified in the file
/etc/default/vxassist. The defaults listed in this file take effect if you do not
override them on the command line, or in an alternate defaults file that you specify
using the -d option. A default value specified on the command line always takes
precedence. vxassist also has a set of built-in defaults that it uses if it cannot
find a value defined elsewhere.
You must create the /etc/default directory and the vxassist default file if these
do not already exist on your system.
The format of entries in a defaults file is a list of attribute-value pairs separated
by new lines. These attribute-value pairs are the same as those specified as options
on the vxassist command line.
See the vxassist(1M) manual page.
To display the default attributes held in the file /etc/default/vxassist, use the
following form of the vxassist command:
# vxassist help showattrs
The following is a sample vxassist defaults file:
# By default:
# create unmirrored, unstriped volumes
# allow allocations to span drives
# with RAID-5 create a log, with mirroring don’t create a log
# align allocations on cylinder boundaries
layout=nomirror,nostripe,span,nocontig,raid5log,noregionlog,
diskalign
# use the fsgen usage type, except when creating RAID-5 volumes
usetype=fsgen
Creating volumes
Using vxassist
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