Creating a new filesystem from scratch
1. Check available disks using: ioscan -fnCdisk
2. Size can be checked using: diskinfo -v /dev/rdsk/device
3. pvcreate -f /dev/rdsk/device
4. mkdir /dev/vg_name
5. cd /dev/vg_name ; mknod group c 64 0x0n0000 (where is the next number
avaiable incrementaly. i.e. for vg00 n is 0 so for vg01 n would be 1)
6. vgcreate /dev/vg_name /dev/dsk/device /dev/dsk/device2 etc ...
7. lvcreate -L size -n name /dev/vg_name
8. newfs -F vxfs /dev/vg_name/rname (or -F hfs for hfs type filesystem)
9. mkdir /mount_point
10. edit /etc/fstab to include new filesystem
11. mount -a to mount filesystem
Note:For swap, do not run newfs command. Option -C y and -r n should be used with the lvcreate command.
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