The following procedure describes how to provision new storage. If you are provisioning Storage Foundation on thin storage, you should understand how Storage Foundation works with thin storage.
The procedure assumes a basic configuration for volumes and file systems. More options are available to customize your configuration.
See Customizing allocation behavior.
See Creating a VxFS file system.
To provision new storage
The recommended method is to use the vxdisksetup command.
# vxdisksetup -i 3PARDATA0_1 # vxdisk init 3PARDATA0_1
# vxassist -b -g dg1 make vol1 100g 3PARDATA0_1
# mkfs -t vxfs /dev/vx/rdsk/dg1/vol1
# mkdir /mount1
# mount -t vxfs /dev/vx/dsk/dg1/vol1 /mount1
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