NAME

tkadmin enable lvol - makes a logical volume accessible for I/O

SYNOPSIS

tkadmin enable lvol -server servername lvolname

ARGUMENTS

-server servername Specifies the server affected by the command. The server name is the name that is registered with the DCE Directory Service. If the server name is not specified in the command line, it is retrieved from an environment variable, ENCINA_TK_SERVER. 

lvolname Specifies the logical volume to be enabled. 

DESCRIPTION

The tkadmin enable lvol command makes a volume accessible for I/O. Once enabled, the logical volume must be initialized by the Toolkit server. 

An enabled volume is mounted via the Volume Service and automatically recovered at each server restart by the Recovery Service.  During an automatic recovery, updates lost because of a server crash are redone and in-progress transactions are aborted. 

EXAMPLES

The following command enables the lvol8 logical volume:

% tkadmin enable lvol lvol8

PRIVILEGE REQUIRED

Encina Monitor administer (a) permission to the node manager

Encina RQS administer (a) permission to the RQS server

Encina SFS administer (A) permission to the SFS server

RELATED INFORMATION

tkadmin disable lvol

  —  March 1997