HP XP10000, XP128 manual Creating the physical volumes, To create the physical volumes

Creating the physical volumes

A physical volume must be created for each new SCSI disk device.

To create the physical volumes:

1.Use the pvcreate command to create the physical volumes with the character-type device file as the argument. Specify the /dev/rdsk directory.

Example # pvcreate /dev/rdsk/c6t0d0

Physical volume "/dev/rdsk/c6t0d0" has been successfully created.

:

# pvcreate /dev/rdsk/c6t0d1

Physical volume "/dev/rdsk/c6t0d1" has been successfully created.

Do not use the –foption with the pvcreate command. This option creates a new physical volume forcibly and overwrites the existing volume. If you accidentally enter the character-type device file for an existing volume, you will lose the data on that volume.

2. Repeat step 1 for each OPEN-xdevice on the disk array.

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