Qs?
Q: how do i initialize a disk w/o it being assigned to a disk group
automatically?  how do i just have it sitting in the disks window?
A: you have to add it via the command line; the gui defaults it to
a disk group

q How do i move a disk in one disk group to another existing disk group?
a: once its in a disk group, if you dissasociate all parts of it from
the disk group then remove it from the group, it becomes a non-disk group
member disk.

**************************************************************************
*** Adding a new disk to an existing disk group/rootdg by default

GUI: 
Basic-ops -> Disk Operations -> Add disks,
then type in the c3t4d0 and the disk group to add it to.
then, once its added, right click on the disk (it will give
a default name) and give it its new name to be c3t4d0

CLI:
vxdisksetup -i c3t4d0
vxdg -g rootdg adddisk c3t4d0=c3t4d0s2

**************************************************************************
*** Renaming a disk (any object's name can be changed by this gui method)

GUI:
right click on disk, retype disk name in first field

CLI:
vxedit -g sybasedg rename sybase01 c3t1d0

**************************************************************************
*** Changing a disk's owner (needed for Sybase devices)

GUI:
??

CLI:
vxedit set user=sybase_user group=sybase_group mode=600

**************************************************************************
*** Deleting a disk

GUI:
highlight disk in disk group window
advanced ops -> disk groups -> disconnect disks (it will grey out)
from disks menu, highlight PARTITION not just the physical disk
advanced ops -> disks -> remove disk
from disk group window, highlight greyed out disk, 
advanced ops -> disk groups -> remove disk

CLI:
vxdg -g rootdg -k rmdisk c3t2d0
vxdiskunsetup c3t2d0
vxdg -g rootdg rmdisk c3t2d0

**************************************************************************
*** create a new disk group

GUI:
you need to create a new disk group with a disk onhand already:
disconnect it from an existing disk group (disk will grey out)
highlight the partition from the disks menu
advanced ops -> disk group -> initialize
give it a new name...voila new disk group w/ your disk in it.
go to old disk group, highlight greyed out
advanced ops -> disk group -> remove disk

CLI:
vxdg -g rootdt -k rmdisk c3t4d0
vxdg init sybasedg c3t4d0=c3t4d0s2
vxdg -g rootdg rmdisk c3t4d0

**************************************************************************
*** adding a disk to a disk group: gui easier to use

GUI:
from disks menu, highlight partition, 
adv ops -> disk group -> add disk
and fill in form

CLI:
vxdg -g sybasedg adddisk sybase02=c3t1d0s2

**************************************************************************
*** creating subdisks: MUCH easier through gui

GUI:
disk group menu
highlight disk, 
adv ops -> subdisks -> create, fill in forms w/ name and size (50m==50mb)

CLI:
vxmake -g sybasedg sd master_dev dm_name=c3t4d0 dm_offset=102400 len=102400
(length is in 2k pages apparently)

**************************************************************************
*** creating plexes: simple through script...
GUI:

highlight a subdisk,
advanced ops -> plexes -> create plex

CLI:
vxmake -g sybasedg plex master_dev_mirror_pl sd=master_dev_mirror

**************************************************************************
*** Creating volumes: MUCH easier through gui

GUI:
click on a plex, 
adv ops -> volumes -> create volume and populate name
then click on a second plex to mirror and drag its outline to the 
newly created volume

CLI:
vxmake -U fsgen -g sybasedg vol datadev2 read_pol=SELECT user=root \
group=other mode=0644 log_type=NONE len=4194304 plex=datadev2_mirror_pl
vxplex -g sybasedg att datadev2 datadev2_pl