VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Disk Tasks
Introduction
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Introduction
This chapter describes the operations for managing disks used by the
Volume Manager.
NOTE Most Volume Manager commands require superuser or other
appropriate privileges.
The following topics are covered in this chapter:
• “Disk Devices”
• “Disk Utilities”
• “vxdiskadm Main Menu”
• “Initializing Disks”
• “Adding a Disk to Volume Manager”
• “Placing Disks Under Volume Manager Control”
• “Moving Disks”
• “Enabling a Physical Disk”
• “Disabling a Disk”
• “Replacing a Disk”
• “Removing Disks”
• “Taking a Disk Offline”
• “Adding a Disk to a Disk Group”
• “Adding a VM Disk to the Hot-Relocation Pool”
• “Removing a VM Disk From the Hot-Relocation Pool”
• “Excluding a Disk from Hot-Relocation Use”
• “Including a Disk for Hot-Relocation Use”
• “Reinitializing a Disk”
• “Renaming a Disk”