VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

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Step 5. If you speciﬁed the name of a disk group that does not already exist, vxdiskadm

prompts for conﬁrmation that you really want to create this new disk group:

There is no active disk group named disk group name.

Create a new group named disk group name? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) y

You are then prompted to conﬁrm whether the disk group should support the

Cross-platform Data Sharing (CDS) feature:

Create the disk group as a CDS disk group? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)

If the new disk group may be moved between different operating system platforms,

enter y. Otherwise, enter n.

Step 6. At the following prompt, either press Return to accept the default disk name or

enter n to allow you to deﬁne your own disk names:

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

Step 7. When prompted whether the disks should become hot-relocation spares, enter n (or

press Return):

Add disks as spare disks for disk group name? [y,n,q,?] (default: n) n

Step 8. When prompted whether to exclude the disks from hot-relocation use, enter n (or

press Return).

Exclude disk from hot-relocation use? [y,n,q,?} (default: n) n

Step 9. To continue with the operation, enter y (or press Return) at the following prompt:

The selected disks will be added to the disk group disk group name

with default disk names.

list of device names

Continue with operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) y

Step 10. If one or more disks already contains a ﬁle system, vxdiskadm asks if you are sure

that want to destroy it. Enter y to conﬁrm this:

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

VxVM INFO V-5-2-205 Initializing device

device name