This “procedure” is used to see the content of an unused disk on AIX and create a new volume group from this unused disk
- lspv (To display information about a physical volume within a volume group)
- importvg <disk> (Imports a new volume group definition from a set of physical volumes)
importvg hdisk0
- lsvg -l <logical volume> (Displays information about volume groups)
lsvg -l vg00
- varyoffvg <volume group>
varyoffvg vg00
- exportvg <volume group> ( Exports the definition of a volume group from a set of physical
volumes)
exportvg vg00
- mkvg -f -y <volum group> <disk> (Create a volume group forcing the volume group to be created on the specified physical
volume)
mkvg -f -y datavg hdisk0
