Changing the default disk format

When disks are put under VxVM control, they are formatted with the default cdsdisk layout. This happens during the following operations:

You can override this behavior by changing the settings in the system defaults files. For example, you can change the default format to sliced for disk initialization by modifying the definition of the format attribute in the /etc/default/vxdisk defaults file.

To change the default format for disk encapsulation or LVM disk conversion

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Defaults files