[Veritas-vx] vxdisk init a single disk slice ?

2011-04-28 Thread P.Tsvetkov
Hello all! I know it was possible to add a disk slice (partition) into veritas diskgroup. It could be done with vxdisk init command  like  vxdisk -f init cot1d0s0 type=simple Is it still possible in 5.1SP1 ? It seems to me not... vxdisk -f init c1t5d0s0 type=simple Gives

Re: [Veritas-vx] vxdisk init a single disk slice ?

2011-04-28 Thread Francisco Puente
Hello Pavel, AFAIK that was only possible on VxVM up to 3.x , it's a shame it doesn't work anymore that way. I've used it on 3.x, but fails on 4.x and 5.x Francisco _ De: veritas-vx-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-vx-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] En nombre de

Re: [Veritas-vx] vxdisk init a single disk slice ?

2011-04-28 Thread William Havey
I'm curious as to the purpose of putting a slice in a disk group. Why do it? I know it was a work-around for rootdg requirements. But that's long gone. Bill On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Francisco Puente fpuent...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Pavel, AFAIK that was only possible on VxVM up to

Re: [Veritas-vx] vxdisk init a single disk slice ?

2011-04-28 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:39:07AM -0400, William Havey wrote: I'm curious as to the purpose of putting a slice in a disk group. Why do it? I know it was a work-around for rootdg requirements. But that's long gone. *production* purpose? Don't know. But I used it all the time for testing

Re: [Veritas-vx] vxdisk init a single disk slice ?

2011-04-28 Thread William Havey
Thanks for the example. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:07 PM, A Darren Dunham ddun...@taos.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:39:07AM -0400, William Havey wrote: I'm curious as to the purpose of putting a slice in a disk group. Why do it? I know it was a work-around for rootdg requirements.