Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Administrator's Guide (September 2006)

97Administering disks
Adding a disk to VxVM
c3t1d0 mydg03 mydg online
c3t2d0 mydg04 mydg online
c3t3d0 mydg05 mydg online
c3t8d0 mydg06 mydg online
c3t9d0 mydg07 mydg online
c3t10d0 mydg02 mydg online
c4t1d0 mydg08 mydg online
c4t2d0 TCd1-18238 TCg1-18238 online
c4t13d0 - - online invalid
c4t14d0 - - online
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Select disk devices to add:
[<pattern-list>,all,list,q,?]
The phrase online invalid in the STATUS line indicates that a disk has yet to
be added or initialized for VxVM control. Disks that are listed as online with a
disk name and disk group are already under VxVM control.
Enter the device name or pattern of the disks that you want to initialize at the prompt
and press Return.
3 To continue with the operation, enter y (or press Return) at the following prompt:
Here are the disks selected. Output format: [Device]
list of device names
Continue operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) y
4 At the following prompt, specify the disk group to which the disk should be added, or
none to reserve the disks for future use:
You can choose to add these disks to an existing disk group, a
new disk group, or you can leave these disks available for use
by future add or replacement operations. To create a new disk
group, select a disk group name that does not yet exist. To
leave the disks available for future use, specify a disk group
name of “none”.
Which disk group [<group>,none,list,q,?]
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)