VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

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If the disk you want to add has previously been under LVM control, you can preserve the data
it contains on a VxVM disk by the process of conversion (refer the VERITAS Volume Manager
Migration Guide for more details).
Using vxdiskadd to Place a Disk Under Control of VxVM
As an alternative to vxdiskadm, you can use the vxdiskadd command to put a disk under
VxVM control. For example, to initialize the second disk on the first controller, use the
following command:
# vxdiskadd c0t1d0
The vxdiskadd command examines your disk to determine whether it has been initialized
and also checks for disks that have been added to VxVM, and for other conditions.
NOTE If you are adding an uninitialized disk, warning and error messages are
displayed on the console during the vxdiskadd command. Ignore these
messages. These messages should not appear after the disk has been fully
initialized; the vxdiskadd command displays a success message when the
initialization completes.
The interactive dialog for adding a disk using vxdiskadd is similar to that for vxdiskadm,
described in “Adding a Disk to VxVM” on page 83.