VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Storage Administrator Administrator's Guide

Volume Tasks
Creating a Volume
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When you have provided all necessary information in the dialog box,
Size: Type the volume size. The default size unit is
sectors. To specify a size unit, attach an s (sectors),
k (kilobytes), m (megabytes), or g (gigabytes) to the
size.
To determine the largest possible size for the
volume, click Maxsize.
Layout: Choose Concatenated or Concatenated Pro for the
volume layout.
Options • To mirror the volume, select Mirrored. In the
Total Number of Mirrors field, type the total
number of mirrors for the volume. (Note:
Concatenated pro volumes are mirrored by
default.)
To enable logging for a mirrored volume, select
Enable Logging.
• To place the volume on a specific disk, click
Assign Disks and select the disk you want to use
from the Space Allocation dialog box.
• To place a file system on the volume, click Add
File System and specify the file system type and
mount point in the Add File System dialog box.
• To clear the volume before enabling it for general
use, select Initialize Zero.
• To prevent the creation of a layered volume,
select No Layered Volumes. In cases where a
layered volume layout is appropriate, the
Volume Manager can create a layered volume
when a non-layered layout is specified. This
option ensures that the volume has a
non-layered layout. If a layered (Pro) layout is
selected, this option is ignored.
• To add a comment attribute for the volume, type
the information in the Comment field.