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Setting up Other Disks
Use vxdiskadm to add disks other than the boot disks to the system as new Volume
Manager disks after the vxinstall process is complete. Select option 1, Add or
initialize disks.
See the Sun StorEdge VolumeManager System Administrator ’s Guide for full details of
using vxdiskadm.
See the Netra ft1800 User’s Guide for details of adding disks that are not already in
the system.
Note – Youshould plan to store all non-boot data on disks in groups other than
rootdg.

▼To Add a New Disk

1. Use the cmsconfig utility to check that the disk is enabled.
The disk must be physically present and enabled.
2. Check that the disk is known to the Volume Manager:
3. Add the disk to a disk group.
See the Sun StorEdge VolumeManager User’s Guide for details of creating and adding
disks to disk groups.
Create new disk groups for user data with names other than rootdg.
Note – If the new disk is not visible to the VolumeManager, enter the command:
vxdctl enable
Configuring Storage
Once a disk belongs to a disk group, you can allocate storage using any of the
methods described in the Sun StorEdge VolumeManager User’s Guide or the
SunStorEdge Volume Manager System Administrator’s Guide.
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