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Creating the physical volumes
A physical volume must be created for each new SCSI disk device.
To create the physical volumes:
1. Use the pvcreate command to create the physical volumes with the
character-type device file as the argument. Specify the /dev/rdsk
directory.
Example
# pvcreate /dev/rdsk/c6t0d0
Physical volume "/dev/rdsk/c6t0d0" has been
successfully created.
:
# pvcreate /dev/rdsk/c6t0d1
Physical volume "/dev/rdsk/c6t0d1" has been
successfully created.
Do not use the –f option with the pvcreate command. This option
creates a new physical volume forcibly and overwrites the existing
volume. If you accidentally enter the character-type device file for an
existing volume, you will lose the data on that volume.
2. Repeat step 1 for each OPEN-x device on the disk array.