VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Administrator's Guide (September 2002)

306 VERITAS Volume Manager Administrator’s Guide
Creating Volumes
Command Description
vxassist [-g diskgroup] maxsize \
layout=layout [attributes]
Displays the maximum size of volume that can
be created. See “Discovering the Maximum Size
of a Volume” on page 165.
vxassist make volume length \
[layout=layout ] [attributes]
Creates a volume. See “Creating a Volume on
Any Disk” on page 165 and “Creating a Volume
on Specific Disks” on page 166
vxassist make volume length \
layout=mirror [nmirror=N] [attributes]
Creates a mirrored volume. See “Creating a
Mirrored Volume” on page 170.
vxassist make volume length \
layout=layout exclusive=on [attributes]
Creates a volume that may be opened
exclusively by a single node in a cluster. See
“Creating Volumes with Exclusive Open Access
by a Node” on page 266.
vxassist make volume length \
layout=stripe|raid5 \
[stripeunit=W] [ncol=N] [attributes]
Creates a striped or RAID-5 volume. See
“Creating a Striped Volume” on page 173 and
“Creating a RAID-5 Volume” on page 176.
vxassist make volume length \
layout=layout mirror=ctlr [attributes]
Creates a volume with mirrored data plexes on
separate controllers. See “Mirroring across
Targets, Controllers or Enclosures” on page 175.
vxmake -Uusage_type vol volume \
[len=length] plex=plex,...
Creates a volume from existing plexes. See
“Creating a Volume Using vxmake” on page 178.
vxvol start volume Initializes and starts a volume for use. See
“Initializing andStarting a Volume” on page 181
and “Starting a Volume” on page 190.
vxvol init zero volume Initializes and zeros out a volume for use. See
“Initializing and Starting a Volume” on
page 181.