VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Storage Administrator Administrator's Guide

Volume Tasks
Introduction
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Introduction
This chapter describes how to create and use volumes with the Volume
Manager Storage Administrator. It also includes information on how to
use file systems with volumes. The Volume Task Roadmap and File
System Task Roadmap at the beginning of this chapter contain
summaries of common volume and file system tasks.
The following volume tasks are discussed in this chapter:
• “Creating a Volume”
• “Resizing a Volume”
• “Renaming a Volume”
• “Changing a Volume’s Layout”
• “Adding a Mirror to a Volume”
• “Adding a Log to a Volume”
• “Stopping a Volume”
• “Starting a Volume”
• “Creating a Snapshot Copy of a Volume”
• “Merging a Snapshot Volume”
• “Dissociating a Snapshot Volume”
• “Preparing to Restore a Volume From Backup”
• “Recovering a Volume”
• “Repairing a Mirror”
• “Disabling a Mirror”
• “Removing a Mirror From a Volume”
• “Removing a Log From a Volume”
• “Removing a Volume”
• “Associating a Plex”
• “Dissociating a Plex”
• “Moving a Subdisk”