Labeling a Volume

When you label a volume, you associate the volume with a specific volume pool, which means that the volume is eligible to receive data when ISM needs a volume from that pool.

To label a blank volume

Load the volume in a storage device.
To label a blank volume, use the following command:
```
ism_op -label device -pool pool -volume name
```
1. Specify the pathname of the device.
2. Use the ISMData and ISMData Clone pools for storage spaces and the ISMLogs and ISMLogs Clone pools for logical logs.
  If you use a file-type device, use the ISMDiskData and ISMDiskLogs pools to create file-type storage volumes.
3. Specify the volume name.
4. Optionally, use the -set_capacity option to set the estimated capacity for the volume:
  For tape volumes, if you do not set the capacity explicitly, the ISM server uses a default setting based on the media type. ISM writes data to the tape volume, however, until the volume is full, regardless of the estimated capacity that is set.
  
  For file-type and optical disk volumes, if you do not set a value, ISM writes data to the file-type device or optical device until the device is full. If you enter a value, however, ISM writes data to the file-type or optical disk device until that value is reached.