This is for SLES8 only, everything changes in SLES9.
grep dasdbl /proc/dasd/devices # - to find major/minor numbers of device mknod /dev/dasdbl b 94 mknod /dev/dasdbl1 b 94 253 # - minor number + 1 dasdfmt -y -f /dev/dasdbl -b 4096 -p fdasd -a /dev/dasdbl pvcreate /dev/dasdbl1 vgextend vg00 /dev/dasdbl1 |