VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Volume Manager Operations

Common Volume Manager Commands

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Common Volume Manager Commands

vxedit Command

The common command used to remove or rename Volume Manager

objects (volumes, plexes, and subdisks) is the vxedit command. The

vxedit command has two functions:

• it allows you to modify certain records in the volume management

databases. Only ﬁelds that are not volume usage-type-dependent can

be modiﬁed.

• it can remove or rename Volume Manager objects.

Volume Manager objects that are associated with other objects are not

removable by the vxedit command. This means that the vxedit

command cannot remove:

• a subdisk that is associated with a plex

• a plex that is associated with a volume

NOTE Using the recursive suboption (-r) to the removal option of the vxedit

command removes all objects from the speciﬁed object downward. In this

way, a plex and its associated subdisks, or a volume and its associated

plexes and their associated subdisks, can be removed by a single vxedit

command.

For detailed information, see the vxedit(1M) manual page.

vxtask Utility

The vxtask utility performs basic administrative operations on Volume

Manager tasks that are running on the system. Operations include

listing tasks, modifying the state of a task (pausing, resuming, aborting)

and modifying the rate of progress of a task. See the vxtask(1M) manual

page for more information.

Volume Manager tasks represent long-term operations in progress on

the system. Every task gives information on the time the operation