VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Disk Tasks
Placing Disks Under Volume Manager Control
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Step 8. To continue with the operation, enter y (or press Return) at the following
prompt:
The selected disks will be added to the disk group rootdg
with
default disk names.
c1t2d0
Continue with operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) y
Step 9. If the disk was used for the file system earlier, then the vxdiskadm
program gives you the following choices:
The following disk device appears to contain a currently
unmounted
file system.
c1t2d0
Are you sure you want to destroy this file system
[y,n,q,?] (default: n)
Messages similar to the following shouldnow confirm that disk c1t2d0 is
being placed under Volume Manager control.
Initializing device c1t2d0.
Adding disk device c1t2d0 to disk group rootdg with disk
name disk39.
Step 10. At the following prompt, indicate whether you want to continue to
initialize more disks (y) or return to the vxdiskadm main menu (n):
Add or initialize other disks? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)
Placing Multiple Disks Under Volume Manager
Control
This section describes how to place multiple disks under Volume
Manager control simultaneously. The set of disks can consist of all disks
on the system, all disks on a controller, selected disks, or a combination
thereof.
NOTE Initialization does not preserve data on disks.