VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

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Step 11. You 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.
Step 12. At the following prompt, vxdiskadm asks if you want to use the default private
region size of 2048 blocks. 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: 2048)
vxdiskadm then proceeds to add the disks.
Adding disk device device name to disk group disk group name with
disk name disk name.
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NOTE To bring LVM disks under VxVM control, use the Migration Utilities.
Refer theVERITAS Volume Manager Migration Guide for details.
Step 13. At the following prompt, indicate whether you want to continue to initialize more
disks (y) or return to the vxdiskadm main menu (n):
Add or initialize other disks? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)
See “Displaying and Changing Default Disk Layout Attributes” on page 76 for details of how
to change the default layout that is used to initialize disks.
Reinitializing a Disk
You can reinitialize a disk that has previously been initialized for use by VxVM by putting it
under VxVM control as you would a new disk. See “Adding a Disk to VxVM” on page 83 for
details.
CAUTION Reinitialization does not preserve data on the disk. If you want to reinitialize
the disk, make sure that it does not contain data that should be preserved.