VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Administrator's Guide (September 2004)

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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

vxdiskadm asks you to conﬁrm that the devices are to be reinitialized

before proceeding:

Reinitialize these devices? [y,n,q,?] (default: n) y

Initializing device

device name

Adding disk device

device name

to disk group

disk group name

withdisk name

disk

name

NOTE To bring LVM disks under VxVM control, use the

Migration Utilities. See the VERITAS Volume Manager Migration Guide

for details.

Step 11. At the following prompt, indicate whether you want to continue to

initialize more disks (y) or return to the vxdiskadm main menu (n):

Add or initialize other disks? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)

Reinitializing a Disk

You can reinitialize a disk that has previously been initialized for use by

VxVM by putting it under VxVM control as you would a new disk. See

“Adding a Disk to VxVM” on page 80 for details.

CAUTION Reinitialization does not preserve data on the disk. If you want to

reinitialize the disk, make sure that it does not contain data that should

be preserved.

If the disk you want to add has previously been under LVM control, you

can preserve the data it contains on a VxVM disk by the process of

conversion (see the VERITAS Volume Manager Migration Guide for

more details).