HP Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 -UX 11i v3 manual Continue with operation? y,n,q,? default y y

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Administering disks

Adding a disk to VxVM

A site tag is usually applied to disk arrays or enclosures, and is not required unless you want to use the Remote Mirror feature. If you enter y to choose to add a site tag, you are prompted to the site name at step 11.

10To continue with the operation, enter y (or press Return) at the following prompt:

The selected disks will be added to the disk group disk group name with default disk names.

list of device names

Continue with operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) y

11If you chose to tag the disks with a site in step 9, you are now prompted to enter the site name that should be applied to the disks in each enclosure:

The following disk(s):

list of device names belong to enclosure(s): list of enclosure names

Enter site tag for disks on enclosure enclosure_name [<name>,q,?] site_name

12If one or more disks already contains a file system, vxdiskadm asks if you are sure that want to destroy it. Enter y to confirm this:

The following disk device appears to contain a currently unmounted file system.

list of device 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.

13You 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.

14At 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)