VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Administrator's Guide (September 2002)

302 VERITAS Volume Manager Administrator’s Guide
Administering Disks
Command Description
vxdiskadm Administers disksin VxVM using amenu-based
interface.
vxdiskadd [devicename] Adds a disk specified by device name. See
“Using vxdiskaddtoPlacea Disk Under Control
of VxVM” on page 68.
vxedit rename olddisk newdisk Renames a disk under control of VxVM.See
“Renaming a Disk” on page 81.
vxedit set reserve=on|off diskname Sets aside/does notsetasidea disk fromusein a
disk group. See “Reserving Disks” on page 82.
vxedit set nohotuse=on|off diskname Does not/does allow free space on a disk to be
used for hot-relocation. See “Excluding a Disk
from Hot-Relocation Use” on page 236 and
“Making a Disk Available for Hot-Relocation
Use” on page 237.
vxedit set spare=on|off diskname Adds/removes a disk from the pool of
hot-relocation spares. See “Marking a Disk as a
Hot-Relocation Spare” on page 234 and
“Removing a Disk from Use as a Hot-Relocation
Spare” on page 235.
vxdisk offline devicename Takes a disk offline. See “Taking a Disk Offline”
on page 81.
vxdg -g diskgroup rmdisk diskname Removes a disk from its disk group. See
“Removing a Disk with No Subdisks” on
page 76.
vxdisk rm diskname Removes a disk from control of VxVM. See
“Removing a Disk with No Subdisks” on
page 76.