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 in the Size field. 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 RAID-5 for the volume layout.
In the Number of Columns field, specify the number
of columns (disks) across which the volume should
be striped. A RAID-5 volume requires at least three
disks (or four disks if logging is enabled).
To specify a stripe unit size other than the default,
type the stripe unit size in theStripe Unit Size field.
To specify a size unit, attach an s (sectors), k
(kilobytes), m (megabytes), or g (gigabytes) to the
size.
Options • To stripe the volume across specific disks, click
Assign Disks and select the disks 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 enable RAID-5 logging for the volume, select
Enable Logging. The Volume Manager adds an
appropriate number of logs to the volume.
• To clear the volume before enabling it for general
use, select Initialize Zero.
• To add a comment attribute for the volume, type
the information in the Comment field.