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

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To exclude disks, list the names of the disks to be excluded in the file
/etc/vx/disks.exclude before the initialization. The following is an
example of the contents of a disks.exclude file:
c0t1d0
You can exclude all disks on specific controllers from initialization by
listing those controllers in the file /etc/vx/cntrls.exclude. The
following is an example of an entry in a cntrls.exclude file:
c0
You can exclude all disks in specific enclosures from initialization by
listing those enclosures in the file /etc/vx/enclr.exclude. The following
is an example of an entry in a enclr.exclude file:
enc1
NOTE Only the vxinstall and vxdiskadm commands use the contents of the
/etc/vx/disks.exclude, /etc/vx/cntrls.exclude and /etc/vx/enclr.exclude
files. You may need to create these files if they do not already exist on
the system.