VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Cross-Platform Data Sharing Administrator's Guide

Defaults Files
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Specifies default values for the cds, default_activation_mode and
enable_activation parameters to the vxdg command. (The
default_activation_mode and enable_activation parameters are only used with
shared disk groups in a cluster.) The following is a sample vxdg defaults file:
cds=on
See the vxdg(1M) manual page for more information.
/etc/default/vxdisk
Specifies default values for the format and privlen parameters to the vxdisk and
vxdisksetup commands. These commands are used when disks are initialized by VxVM for the
first time.They are also called implicitly by the vxdiskadm command and the VERITAS
Enterprise Administrator (VEA) GUI. The following is a sample vxdisk defaults file:
format=cdsdisk
privlen=2048
See the vxdisk(1M) and vxdisksetup(1M) manual pages for more information.
/etc/default/vxencap
Specifies default values for the format, privlen, privoffset and puboffset parameters
to the vxencap and vxlvmencap commands. These commands are used when disks with
existing partitions or slices are encapsulated, or when LVM disks are converted to VM disks. It is
also called implicitly by the vxdiskadm, vxconvert (on AIX) and vxvmconvert (on
HP-UX) commands, and by the VEA. The following is a sample vxencap defaults file:
format=sliced
privlen=4096
privoffset=0
puboffset=1
See the vxencap(1M), vxconvert(1M) and vxvmconvert(1M) manual pages (where
available) for more information.
In the defaults files, a line that is empty, or that begins with a # character in the first column, is
treated as a comment, and is ignored.
Apart from comment lines, all other lines must define attributes and their values using the format
attribute=value. Each line starts in the first column, and is terminated by the value. No white
space is allowed around the = sign.