VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Disk Tasks
Adding a Disk to Volume Manager
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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)
Step 4. At the following prompt, either press Return to accept the default disk
name or enter a disk name:
Use a default disk name for the disk? [y,n,q,?]
(default: y)
Step 5. When prompted as to whether this disk should become a hot-relocation
spare, enter n (or press Return):
Add disk as a spare disk for rootdg? [y,n,q,?] (default:
n) n
Step 6. When the vxdiskadm program prompts whether to exclude this disk
from hot-relocation use, enter n (or press Return).
Exclude disk from hot-relocation use? [y,n,q,?]
(default: n)
Step 7. To continue with the task, enter y (or press Return) at the following
prompt:
The selected disks will be added to the disk group
rootdg with
default disk names.
c1t0d0
Continue with operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) y
Step 8. Messages similar to the following are displayed while the disk device is
initialized and added to the disk group selected by you:
c1t0d0
Initializing device c1t0d0.
Adding disk device c0t1d0 to disk group rootdg with disk
name
disk01.
Goodbye.