Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 Advanced Features Administrator"s Guide (5900-1503, April 2011)

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 Storage
Foundation Manager (SFM) GUI.
The following is a sample vxdisk defaults file:
format=cdsdisk
privlen=2048
See the vxdisk(1M) manual page.
See the vxdisksetup(1M) manual page.
vxdisk
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 SFM.
The following is a sample vxencap defaults file:
format=sliced
privlen=4096
privoffset=0
puboffset=1
See the vxencap(1M) manual page.
See the vxconvert(1M) manual page.
See the vxvmconvert(1M) manual page.
vxencap
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.
Maintaining your system
You may need to perform maintenance tasks on the CDS disks and CDS disk groups.
Refer to the respective section for each type of task.
■ Disk tasks
Migrating data between platforms
Maintaining your system
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