VERITAS Volume Manager 3.2 for HP-UX Release Notes

Initializing the VERITAS Volume Manager for HP-UX

Chapter 160

The Volume Manager has detected the following disks in enclosure

enc0:

enc0_0 enco_1 enco_2 enco_3

Hit RETURN to continue.

NOTE If any disks are listed in the /etc/vx/disks.exclude or

/etc/vx/cntrls.exclude or /etc/vx/enclr.exclude files, they are listed

here separately as excluded disks.

The example continues with the prompt that allows you to indicate how you

want the disks on this disk array to be handled.

Installation options for enclosure enc0

Menu: VolumeManager/Install/Custom/enc0

1 Install all disks as new disks. (discards data on disks!)

2 Install one disk at a time.

3 Leave these disks alone.

? Display help about menu

?? Display help about the menuing system

q Exit from menus

Select an operation to perform:

a. If you select option 1, vxinstall proceeds as follows:

CAUTION Choosing option 1 to initialize all disks on the controller can result in loss of

data. If you choose option 1, all disks on the controller are reinitialized: this

destroys all data and partitions on each disk and each disk makes it

available as free space for allocating new volumes or mirrors of existing

volumes. If you are running the vxinstall program on new disks that have

never been placed under VERTAS Volume Manager control before, choose

this option.

If you choose option 1 to install all disks as new disks, you will be asked to

indicate whether you want default disk names to be assigned to all of the