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AIX Version 4.3 System Management Guide: Operating System and Devices

Making an Available Disk a Physical Volume

To be assigned to volume groups and used by the LVM, a disk must be configured as a physical volume.

Prerequisites

Procedure

To change an available disk to a physical volume, enter:

chdev -l hdisk3 -a pv=yes

This causes the available disk (hdisk3 ) to be assigned a physical volume identifier (PVID) if it does not already have one.

Note: This command has no effect if the disk is already a physical volume.

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