VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Migration Guide

Command Differences
LVM and VxVM Command Equivalents
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lvextend Increases disk space
allocated to a logical
volume.
vxassist Increases a volume in size
with the growto or growby
parameter.
Example: vxassist growto
vol_name 200M,
vxassist growby vol_name
100M
vxassist creates and modifies
volumes.
lvreduce Decreases disk space
allocated to a logical
volume.
vxassist Decreases a volume in size
with the shrinkto or
shrinkby parameters.
Example: vxassist
shrinkto vol_name 200M
Make sure you shrink the file
system before shrinking the
volume.
lvremove Removes one or more
logical volumes from a
volume group.
vxedit
vxassist
Removes volumes with the
-rf rm parameters.
Example: vxedit -rf rm
vol_name
Removes a volume with the
remove volume parameters.
Example: vxassist remove
volume vol_name
Table 3-1Command Comparison
LVM Description/Action VxVM Description/Action