VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 User's Guide - VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (June 2002)

Subdisk Properties
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▼ To join subdisks
1. Identify one of the two subdisks that you want to join and display it in the right pane.
2. Right-click on the subdisk you want to join to bring up its context menu.
3. Select Join from the context menu.
4. The welcome screen of the Subdisk Join wizard appears. Click Next to continue.
5. In the screen that comes up next, select the subdisks to be joined together and click
Next.
6. The final screen of the Subdisk Join wizard appears. Click Finish to complete the
command.
Within a short time, the two subdisks will be replaced in the right pane of the Volume
Manager GUI with one subdisk.
After you have provided all necessary information in the dialog box, click OK.
Subdisk Properties
Name
Subdisks on a disk are assigned numbers in a sequence, such as 1-01, 1-02, 1-03 or 12-01,
12-02, 12-03. The subdisk number is an internal number generated by the program. There
is no particular significance to the one or two digits before the dash except that, for any
one disk, the first one or two numbers identifying its subdisks must be the same. The
Notes:
- The Subdisk Join task requires two or moreexisting subdisk names and a new (joined)
subdisk name.
- Only contiguous subdisks on the same disk can be joined.
- The subdisks to be joined must belong to the same volume and mirror.
- For a striped volume, the subdisks must be in the same column.
- The joined subdisk name can be the name of one of the subdisks being joined.