VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

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<pattern-list> can be a single disk, or a series of disks and/or controllers (with
optional targets). If <pattern-list> consists of multiple items, separate them using
white space, for example:
c3t0d0 c3t1d0 c3t2d0 c3t3d0
specifies fours disks at separate target IDs on controller 3.
If you enter list at the prompt, the vxdiskadm program displays a list of the disks
available to the system:
DEVICE DISK GROUP STATUS
c2t4d0 - - LVM
c2t5d0 - - LVM
c2t6d0 - - LVM
c3t0d0 disk01 rootdg online
c3t1d0 disk03 rootdg online
c3t2d0 disk04 rootdg online
c3t3d0 disk05 rootdg online
c3t8d0 disk06 rootdg online
c3t9d0 disk07 rootdg online
c3t10d0 disk02 rootdg online
c4t1d0 disk08 rootdg online
c4t2d0 TCd1-18238 TCg1-18238 online
c4t13d0 - - online invalid
c4t14d0 - - online
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Select disk devices to add:
[<pattern-list>,all,list,q,?]
The phrase online invalid in the STATUS line indicates that a disk has yet to be
added or initialized for VxVM control. Disks that are listed as online with a disk
name and disk group are already under VxVM control.
Enter the device name or pattern of the disks that you want to initialize at the
prompt and press Return.
Step 3. To continue with the operation, enter y (or press Return) at the following prompt:
Here are the disks selected. Output format: [Device]
list of device names
Continue operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) y
Step 4. At the following prompt, specify the disk group to which the disk should be added,
or none to reserve the disks for future use:
You can choose to add these disks to an existing disk group, a new disk group, or
you can leave these disks available for use by future add or replacement
operations. To create a new disk group,select a disk group name that does not
yet exist. To leave the disks available for future use, specify a disk group
name of “none”.
Which disk group [<group>,none,list,q,?] (default: rootdg)