VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Disk Tasks
Placing Disks Under Volume Manager Control
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yet been added to Volume Manager control. These disks may or may not
have been initialized before. The disks that are listed with a disk name
and disk group cannot be used for this task, as they are already under
Volume Manager control.
Step 3. To continue with the operation, enter y (or press Return) at the following
prompt:
Here is the disk selected. Output format: [Device_Name]
c1t2d0
Continue operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) y
Step 4. At the following prompt, specify the disk group to which the disk should
be added or press Return to accept rootdg:
You can choose to add these disks to an existing disk
group, a new
disk group, or you can leave these disks 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
disks available for future use, specify a disk group
name of
“none”.
Which disk group [<group>,none,list,q,?] (default:
rootdg)
Step 5. 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 6. When the vxdiskadm program asks 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 7. 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) n