VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Administrator's Guide (September 2004)

Administering Disks
Renaming a Disk
Chapter 2100
Renaming a Disk
If you do not specify a VM disk name, VxVM gives the disk a default
name when you add the disk to VxVM control. The VM disk name is used
by VxVM to identify the location of the disk or the disk type. To change
the disk name to reflect a change of use or ownership, use the following
command:
# vxedit rename old_diskname new_diskname
To rename disk01 to disk03, use the following command:
# vxedit rename disk01 disk03
To confirm that the name change took place, use the following command:
# vxdisk list
VxVM returns the following display:
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS
c0t0d0 simple disk04 rootdg online
c1t0d0 simple disk03 rootdg online
c1t1d0 simple - - online
NOTE By default, VxVM names subdisk objects after the VM disk on which
they are located. Renaming a VM disk does not automatically rename
the subdisks on that disk.