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

Volume Tasks
Moving, Splitting, and Joining Subdisks
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To join subdisks
Step 1. Identify one of the two subdisks that you want to join and display it in
the right pane.
Step 2. Right-click on the subdisk you want to join to bring up its context menu.
Step 3. Select Join from the context menu.
Step 4. The welcome screen of the Subdisk Join wizard appears. Click Next to
continue.
Step 5. In the screen that comes up next, select the subdisks to be joined
together and click Next.
Step 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.
NOTE
• The Subdisk Join task requires two or more existing 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.