Veritas Volume Manager 5.1 SP1 Administrator"s Guide (5900-1506, April 2011)

list of enclosure names

Enter site tag for disks on enclosure enclosure name

[<name>,q,?] site_name

If one or more disks already contains a file system, vxdiskadm asks if you are

sure that you want to destroy it. Enter y to confirm this:

The following disk device appears to contain a currently

unmounted file system.

list of enclosure names

Are you sure you want to destroy these file systems

[y,n,q,?] (default: n) y

vxdiskadm asks you to confirm that the devices are to be reinitialized before

proceeding:

Reinitialize these devices? [y,n,q,?] (default: n) y

VxVM INFO V-5-2-205 Initializing device device name.

You can now choose whether the disk is to be formatted as a CDS disk that is

portable between different operating systems, or as a non-portable

hpdisk-format disk:

Enter the desired format [cdsdisk,hpdisk,q,?]

(default: cdsdisk)

Enter the format that is appropriate for your needs. In most cases, this is the

default format, cdsdisk.

At the following prompt, vxdiskadm asks if you want to use the default private

region size of 32768 blocks (32MB). Press Return to confirm that you want

to use the default value, or enter a different value. (The maximum value that

you can specify is 524288 blocks.)

Enter desired private region length [<privlen>,q,?]

(default: 32768)

vxdiskadm then proceeds to add the disks.

VxVM INFO V-5-2-88 Adding disk device device name to disk group

disk group name with disk name disk name.

Administering disks

Adding a disk to VxVM

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