Initializing the new disk

Now that the operating system recognizes the new disk, the next step is to initialize it.

To initialize the disk as in the example

Note below that the internal name OLDDISK is assigned to the old disk. The new disk is assigned a unique name later for the sake of clarity.

The disk is now initialized under VxVM control. Note below, that the disk has a new partition table similar to the existing disk (sdb)and is ready to be joined to the Veritas disk group PDDG (name of the example disk group).