VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

Creating Volumes
Accessing a Volume
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Accessing a Volume
As soon as a volume has been created and initialized, it is available for
use as a virtual disk partition by the operating system for the creation of
a file system, or by application programs such as relational databases
and other data management software.
Creating a volume in the disk group rootdg sets up block and character
(raw) device files that can be used to access the volume:
/dev/vx/dsk/volume—block device file for volume
/dev/vx/rdsk/volume—character device file for volume
For volumes in disk groups other than rootdg, the pathnames include a
directory named for the disk group:
/dev/vx/dsk/diskgroup/volume—block device file for volume
/dev/vx/rdsk/diskgroup/volume—character device file for volume
Use the appropriate device node to create, mount and repair file systems,
and to lay out databases that require raw partitions.