VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Installation Guide (August 2002)

Using vxinstall

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/etc/vx/ntrls.exclude or/etc/vx/enclr.exclude ﬁles, theoption “Prevent

multipathing/Suppress devices from VxVM’s view” in vxinstall, or the Custom

Installation option (which allows you to leave certain disks alone).

Note vxinstall shows default responses in parentheses; to choose the default, press

Return. You can quit the initialization at any time by typing q at any of the

vxinstall prompts. Disks are initialized at the end of the vxinstall procedure.

If you quit vxinstall before it initializes the disks, all disks are left as they were

before vxinstall was started.

1. The vxinstall program prompts for each disk array and asks you how to handle the

disks contained in that disk array. The vxinstall program begins this process for each

disk array by identifying the disk array and generating a list of its disks.

If any disks are listed in the /etc/vx/dsks.exclude,

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

here separately as excluded disks.

Caution Initializing a disk destroys all data on that disk.

Hit RETURN to continue.

2. You are then prompted to indicate if you want to initialize all of the disks on the disk

array.

- If you enter n, the vxinstall program assumes that you want to leave all the

disks on the disk array as they are.

Press Return to continue.

- If you enter y, the vxinstall program prompts you for conﬁrmation and

warns you that this destroys any existing data on the disks, as follows:

If youenter y, vxinstall automatically assigns and lists default disk names foreach

disk.

If you enter n, vxinstall prompts you for a disk name for each disk on the disk

array individually. For each disk, respond with the desired disk name and press

Return.

3. Indicate whetheryou want default disknames to beassigned to all of the disks on the

disk array at the following prompt:

Use default disk names for these disks? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)

- If you enter y, the vxinstall program automatically assigns and lists default

disk names for each disk.