Veritas Storage Foundation Portable Data Containers: Cross-Platform Data Sharing 5.0.1 Administrators Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

Maintaining your system

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ Disk tasks

■ Disk group tasks

■ Displaying information

■ Default activation mode of shared disk groups

■ Additional considerations when importing CDS disk groups

Disk tasks

The following disk tasks are supported:

■ Changing the default disk format

■ Restoring CDS disk labels

Changing the default disk format

When disks are put under VxVM control, they are formatted with the default

cdsdisk layout. This happens during the following operations:

■ Initialization of disks

■ Encapsulation of disks with existing partitions or slices (Linux and Solaris

systems)

■ Conversion of LVM disks (AIX, HP-UX and Linux systems)

You can override this behavior by changing the settings in the system defaults

files. For example, you can change the default format to sliced for disk

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