As soon as a volume has been created and initialized, it is available for use as a virtual disk partition by the operating system for the creation of a file system, or by application programs such as relational databases and other data management software.
Creating a volume in a disk group sets up block and character (raw) device files that can be used to access the volume:
/dev/vx/dsk/dg/vol |
block device file for volume vol in disk group dg |
/dev/vx/rdsk/dg/vol |
character device file for volume vol in disk group dg |
The pathnames include a directory named for the disk group. Use the appropriate device node to create, mount and repair file systems, and to lay out databases that require raw partitions.