VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Reference Guide

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Volume Manager Commands

vxedit -changing VM objects

The vxedit command sets and changes attributes for Volume Manager

conﬁguration records. vxedit has two functions:

• vxedit can remove or rename Volume Manager objects.

• vxedit allows you to modify certain records in the volume

management databases. Only ﬁelds that are not volume

usage-type-dependent can be modiﬁed.

Volume Manager objects that are associated with other objects are not

removable by vxedit. This means that vxedit cannot remove a subdisk

that is associated with a plex or a plex that is associated with a volume.

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

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 about how to use vxedit, refer to the

vxedit(1M) manual page.