Itanium: Creating non-boot disk

[dictum9]

Am I correct in thinking that to create a non-boot, non-mirror disk on an Itanium system, all I have to do is:

pvcreate /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0

i.e. not c2t1d0s2 like I would for a mirror disk of the primary disk.

And from there, the method is just like with PA-RISC disks? vgcreate/vgextend and all?

[Devender Khatana]

hi,

Yes this is correct even for a mirror disk (Except for root Mirror).

Any disk where you do not want to have slices this method can be used. Slices are not mendatory for non-root disks.

HTH,
Devender

[Peter Godron · Accepted solution]

Yes,
the s2 bit is just the slice info.
The rest is all the same.

[Devender Khatana]

Hi Again,

Just forgot to mention the vgextend / vgcreate stuff is all the same for all the disks even in Itanium. The only caution is to use disk device file with S2 for root mirror.

For rest all LVM functions the procedure and the devices to be used are the same.

HTH,
Devender