VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Disk Tasks
Initializing Disks
Chapter 4158
NOTE If you are adding an uninitialized disk, warning and error messages are
displayed on the console during the vxdiskadd command. Ignore these
messages. These messages should not appear after the disk has been
fully initialized; the vxdiskadd command displays a success message
when the initialization completes.
At the following prompt, enter y (or press Return) to continue:
Add or initialize disks
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/AddDisks
Here is the disk selected. Output format: [Device_Name]
c0t1d0
Continue operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) y
If the disk is uninitialized, or if you choose to reinitialize the disk, you
are prompted with this display:
You can choose to add this disk to an existing disk
group, a
new disk group, or leave the disk available for use by
future
add or replacement operations. To create a new disk
group,
select a disk group name that does not yet exist. To
leave
the disk available for future use, specify a disk group
name
of "none".
Which disk group [<group>,none,list,q,?] (default:
rootdg)
To add this disk to the default group rootdg, press Return. To leave the
disk free as a replacement disk (not yet added to any disk group), enter
none. After this, you are prompted to select a name for the disk in the
disk group:
Use a default disk name for the disk? [y,n,q,?]
(default: y) y
Normally, you should accept the default disk name (unless you prefer to