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

Chapter 2, Administering Disks
Adding a Disk to VxVM
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4. At the following prompt, specify the disk group to which the disk should be added,
none to reserve the disks for future use, or press Return to accept rootdg:
You can choose to add these disks to an existing disk group, a new
disk group, or you can leave these disks available for use by
future add or replacement operations. To create a new disk group,
select a disk group name that does not yet exist. To leave the
disks available for future use, specify a disk group name of
“none”.
Which disk group [<group>,none,list,q,?] (default: rootdg)
5. If you specified the name of a disk group that does not already exist, vxdiskadm
prompts for confirmation that you really want to create this new disk group:
There is no active disk group named disk group name.
Create a new group named disk group name? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) y
6. At the following prompt, either press Return to accept the default disk name or enter
n to allow you to define your own disk names:
Use default disk names for the disks? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)
7. When prompted whether the disks should become hot-relocation spares, enter n (or
press Return):
Add disks as spare disks for disk group name? [y,n,q,?] (default: n) n
8. When prompted whether to exclude the disks from hot-relocation use, enter n (or
press Return).
Exclude disk from hot-relocation use? [y,n,q,?} (default: n) n
9. To continue with the operation, enter y (or press Return) at the following prompt:
The selected disks will be added to the disk group disk group name
with default disk names.
list of device names
Continue with operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) y
10. If one or more disks already contains a file system, vxdiskadm asks if you are sure
that want to destroy it. Enter y to confirm this:
The following disk device appears to contain a currently unmounted
file system.
list of device names
Are you sure you want to destroy these file systems
[y,n,q,?] (default: n) y