Maintaining disk drives
Issue 3.3 February 2003 121
Administering data disk drives
After the data disk drives have been installed, partitioned, and formatted, you must
administer the disk drives.
The procedures in this section include:
●Administering new data disks, R3V9 and later
●Administering replacement data disks, R3V9 and later
●Administering a new data disk, R3V8 and earlieron page 122
●Administering a replacement data disk, R3V8 and earlieron page 126

Administering new data disks, R3V9 and later

Administration of new disks in R3V9 and later has been automated using commands on
the CMS Services menu.
To administer one or more new disks to a nonmirrored system, or to administer one or
more pairs of disks to a mirrored system:
1. Enter:
cmssvc
The CMS Services menu is displayed.
Note:
Note: If the following message is displayed, you must first turn on IDS before
continuing with Step2.
2. Enter the number that corresponds to the disk_space option.
3. Enter the number that corresponds to the Add new disks option.
The disks to be added are displayed.
4. Enter the number that corresponds to the disks you want to add.
The system administers the new disks, which may take several minutes depending on
the number and size of the disks. The following message is displayed:
cmssvc: Warning IDS off-line. It will take approx 30 seconds to start
cmssvc. IDS can be turned on with the run_ids command on the cmssvc menu.
added new disk cXtXd0
disk_space command completed.