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

Table A-6
Creating volumes
DescriptionCommand
Displays the maximum size of volume
that can be created.
See “Discovering the maximum size of
a volume” on page 282.
Example:
# vxassist -g mydg maxsize \
layout=raid5 nlog=2
vxassist [-g diskgroup] maxsize \
layout=layout [attributes]
Creates a volume.
See “Creating a volume on any disk”
on page 283.
See “Creating a volume on specific
disks” on page 283.
Example:
# vxassist -b -g mydg make \
myvol 20g layout=concat \
mydg01 mydg02
vxassist -b [-g diskgroup] make \
volume length [layout=layout] \
[attributes]
Creates a mirrored volume.
See “Creating a mirrored volume”
on page 288.
Example:
# vxassist -b -g mydg make \
mymvol 20g layout=mirror \
nmirror=2
vxassist -b [-g diskgroup] make \
volume length layout=mirror \
[nmirror=N][attributes]
Creates a volume that may be opened
exclusively by a single node in a cluster.
See “Creating volumes with exclusive
open access by a node” on page 482.
Example:
# vxassist -b -g mysdg make \
mysmvol 20g layout=mirror \
exclusive=on
vxassist -b [-g diskgroup] make \
volume length layout=layout \
exclusive=on [attributes]
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