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volintro(8)

vold(8)

voliod(8)

volsetup(8)  —  Maintenance

NAME

volsetup − Initialize the Logical Storage Manager (LSM) by creating rootdg diskgroup. 

SYNOPSIS

/sbin/volsetup [diskname][partition name]

DESCRIPTION

The volsetup script should be run after installing the LSM kit.  volsetup is an interactive script which prompts for a disk name, if one is not provided on the command line. If the complete disk cannot be added to LSM, partition names can also be given. 

If more than one disk names or partition names are given as input all the disks and partitions are added to the rootdg diskgroup. 

volsetup will start vold and two voliods. After running volsetup LSM is fully functional. 

EXAMPLES

The following is an example of volsetup usage :

/sbin/volsetup rz3 rz8h
This will add disk rz3 and partition rz8h to
the rootdg diskgroup.

RELATED INFORMATION

volintro(8), vold(8), voliod(8)
DEC OSF/1 Logical Storage Manager

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