Veritas Storage Foundation Cross-Platform Data Sharing 5.0 AdministratorÆs Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, May 2008

Chapter
2
Setting up your system
Creating CDS disks from uninitialized disks
You can create a CDS disk from an uninitialized disk by using one of the
following methods:
■ Creating CDS disks by using vxdisksetup
■ Creating CDS disks by using vxdiskadm
Creating CDS disks by using vxdisksetup
To create a CDS disk by using the vxdisksetup command
◆ Type the following command:
# vxdisksetup -i disk [format= disk_format ]
The format defaults to cdsdisk unless this is overridden by the
/etc/default/vxdisk file, or by specifying the disk format as an
argument to the format attribute.
See “Defaults files” on page 25.
See the vxdisksetup(1M) manual page.
Creating CDS disks by using vxdiskadm
To create a CDS disk by using the vxdiskadm command
◆ Run the vxdiskadm command, and select the “Add or initialize one
or more disks” item from the main menu. You are prompted to specify
the format.