VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Migration Guide

Command Differences
Tasks With No Direct LVM Equivalents
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Replace a disk. Select menu option 4 of vxdiskadm.
Recover volumes on a disk. vxrecover -g disk_group vol_name
medianame
Display a DMP node. vxdisk list meta_device
Rename a disk group. vxdg -tC -n newdg_name
Rename a volume. vxedit -v rename name newname
Update the /usr/fstab file with the new
name.
Add a DRL log to a volume. vxassist addlog vol_name
Create a snapshot copy of a volume. vxassist snapshot vol_name
temp_vol_name
Recover a volume. vxrecover -g disk_group volume
medianame
vxmend fix clean plex_name
Repair a mirror vxplex att plex_name
Disable a mirror vxplex det plex_name
Remove a log from a volume. vxassist remove log vol_name
Move a subdisk. vxsd mv old_subdisk new_subdisk
Split a subdisk. vxsd -s size split subdisk
new_subdisk1 new_subdisk2
Join subdisks. vxsd join subdisk1 subdisk2
new_subdisk
Table 3-3Additional VxVM Tasks with no LVM equivalents
Task Description Example