How do I: format new local disk on hp-ux 11.00

[Vladimir L. Abramov]

Hi!

May be I stupid, but I didnt found out format command...
Nor pvcreate,
nor mkfs,
nor fsck -
I just want to format new local disk.

Does anybody can help me?

thanks.

[RAC_1]

You need pvcreate. /usr/sbin/pvcreate
And it it is run on raw disk.

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

The closest equivalent command is mediainit but it very seldom is used. You can simply begin using the disk with dd, pvcreate, or as a raw device. Man mediainit for details.
I haven't had a reason to run mediainit on an HP box in many years.

[Vladimir L. Abramov]

Thank you for a good answer!

mediainit - all thats I need.

Maybe Someone can give me tip to EMC Symmetrics public forum - I have some questions on it.

Thanks.

[Florian Heigl (new acc)]

I run mediainit on all old scsi drives that make their way here out of a habit and it often proves useful.
Only one week ago I by mistake backgrounded far too many processes on my (pc) firewall and it panicked after trying to page in from a bad disk block.

[Vladimir L. Abramov]

Thanks a lot!