topic Re: set up raw disks in Operating System - HP-UX

set up raw disks

jedd — Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:29:04 GMT

hello all
i have a 11.11 system with Veritas running on it. i included all of my disks in Veritas except for the root disk. my question is , how do i set up raw disk on those disk in Veritas?is it possible?if not possible, what's the next step?do i need to take the disks out of Veritas? i have (4) 4GB disks that i need to partition into (8) 2GB raw disks. any help would be greatly appreciated. do i need to setup newfs on it??

Re: set up raw disks

harry d brown jr — Tue, 29 Jan 2002 00:52:57 GMT

Try this:

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B7961-90023/B7961-90023_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B7961-90023/00/00/17-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B7961-90023/00/00/17-toc.html&searchterms=raw&queryid=20020128-165803

live free or die
harry

Re: set up raw disks

Xavier Gutierrez — Tue, 29 Jan 2002 17:56:48 GMT

You just need to create a vg with all those 4-4gig disks.

Then create 8-2gig lvols but do not newfs them (this will leave them in raw state)

If you need to access them, use (for raw device) /dev/vgxx/rlvoly

If you need further info or command detail, here I am.

Regards,

Xavier.

Re: set up raw disks

jedd — Tue, 29 Jan 2002 20:10:22 GMT

Hi Xavier
thanks for the reply. if the disks are under Veritas Storage Administrator. Should i take them out for Veritas and then use LVM to create those vg and lvol.
again thanks for the reply.
regards
jedd