VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Disk Tasks
Adding a Disk to a Disk Group
Chapter 4188
Step 3. 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 4. When the vxdiskadd 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 5. When the vxdiskadd 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
Step 6. 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.
c1t1d0
Continue with operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) y
Step 7. The following prompt indicates that this disk has been previously
initialized for future Volume Manager use; enter y to confirm that you
now want to use this disk:
The following disk device appears to have been
initialized
already. The disk is currently available as a
replacement disk.
Output format: [Device_Name]
c1t1d0
Use this device? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) y
Step 8. To reinitialize the disk, enter y (or press Return) at the following prompt:
The following disk you selected for use appears to
already have
been initialized for the Volume Manager. If you are
certain
the disk has already been initialized for the Volume