VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Disk Tasks
Displaying Disk Information
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The type information is not present for disks on active/active type disk
arrays because there is no concept of primary and secondary paths to
disks on these disk arrays.
Displaying Disk Information with the vxdiskadm
Program
Displaying disk information shows you which disks are initialized, to
which disk groups they belong, and the disk status. The list command
displays device names for all recognized disks, the disk names, the disk
group names associated with each disk, and the status of each disk.
To display disk information, use the following procedure:
Step 1. Start the vxdiskadm program with the following command:
# vxdiskadm
The vxdiskadm main menu is displayed.
Step 2. Select list (List disk information) from the vxdiskadm main
menu.
Step 3. At the following display, enter the address of the disk you want to see, or
enter all for a list of all disks:
List disk information
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/ListDisk
Use this menu operation to display a list of disks. You
can
also choose to list detailed information about the disk
at
a specific disk device address.
Enter disk device or "all" [<address>,all,q,?] (default:
all)
• If you enter all, the Volume Manager displays the device name,
diskname, group, and status.
• If you enter the address of the device for which you want
information, complete disk information (including the device name,
the type of disk, andinformation aboutthe publicand privateareas of
the disk) is displayed.
Once you have examined this information, press Return to return to the