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

98 Administering disks
Adding a disk to VxVM
If the new disk group may be moved between different operating system platforms,
enter y. Otherwise, enter n.
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)
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
8 When prompted whether to exclude the disks from hot-relocation use, enter n (or
press Return).
Exclude disks from hot-relocation use? [y,n,q,?}
(default: n) n
9 You are next prompted to choose whether you want to add a site tag to the disks:
Add site tag to disks? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)
A site tag is usually applied to disk arrays or enclosures, and is not required unless
you want to use the Remote Mirror feature. If you enter y to choose to add a site tag,
you are prompted to the site name at step 11.
10 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
11 If you chose to tag the disks with a site in step 9, you are now prompted to enter the
site name that should be applied to the disks in each enclosure:
The following disk(s):
list of device names
belong to enclosure(s):
list of enclosure names
Enter site tag for disks on enclosure enclosure_name
[<name>,q,?] site_name
12 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: