VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Disk Tasks
Renaming a Disk
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Renaming a Disk
If you do not specify a Volume Manager name for a disk, the Volume
Manager gives the disk a default name when you add the disk to Volume
Manager control. The Volume Manager name is used by the Volume
Manager to identify the location of the disk or the disk type. To change
the disk name to reflect a change of use or ownership, use the following
command:
# vxedit rename old_diskname new_diskname
To rename disk01 to disk03, use the following command:
# vxedit rename disk01 disk03
To confirm that the name change took place, use the following command:
# vxdisk list
The Volume Manager returns the following display:
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS
c0t0d0 simple disk04 rootdg online
c1t0d0 simple disk03 rootdg online
c1t1d0 simple - - online
NOTE By default, Volume Manager names subdisk objects after the VM disk on
which they are located. Renaming a VM disk does not automatically
rename the subdisks on that disk.