Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Administering a Workgroup

Managing Disks

Chapter 9 861

Adding a Disk

For detailed information and instructions on adding a disk, see

Conﬁguring HP-UX for Peripherals. What follows is a quick reference;

we’ll be using SAM.

NOTE To conﬁgure the disk with disk striping, you must use lvcreate with the

-i and -I options, not SAM (see “Setting Up Disk Striping” on page 589).

Step 1. Shut down and power off the system.

See “Shutting Down Systems” on page 520.

Step 2. Connect the disk to the system and the power supply.

Step 3. Power up the disk.

Step 4. Boot the system.

See “Booting Systems” on page 464.

Step 5. Run SAM:

/usr/sbin/sam

Go to Disks and File Systems/Disk Devices.

Step 6. Follow SAM prompts to conﬁgure the disk into the system and build a

ﬁle system or ﬁle systems, and/or swap area(s), on it.

You can use SAM options on the Actions pull-down menu to conﬁgure

the disk as LVM disks (see “The Logical Volume Manager (LVM)” on

page 558), with or without disk mirroring (see “Managing Mirrored File

Systems” on page 627) if you so decide.

If the driver for this disk is not already conﬁgured into the kernel, SAM

will conﬁgure it for you. In this case SAM will also ask you if you want to

reboot the system from the new kernel; you will not be able to use the

disk till you do.

To export new ﬁle systems to other systems in the workgroup, go to

Networking and Communications/Networked File Systems/

Exported Local File Systems, select Add from the Actions pull-down

menu and follow SAM’s prompts.