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

Commands Summary
Appendix A 411
vxedit rename olddisk
newdisk
Renames a disk under control of
VxVM.See “Renaming a Disk” on
page 100.
vxedit set reserve=on|off
diskname
Sets aside/does not set aside a disk from
use in a disk group. See “Reserving
Disks” on page 101.
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 325 and “Making a Disk
Available for Hot-Relocation Use” on
page 326.
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 322 and “Removing a Disk from
Use as a Hot-Relocation Spare” on
page 324.
vxdisk offline devicename Takes a disk offline. See “Taking a Disk
Offline” on page 99.
vxdg -g diskgroup rmdisk
diskname
Removes a disk from its disk group. See
“Removing a Disk with Subdisks” on
page 92.
vxdisk rm diskname Removes a disk from control of VxVM.
See “Removing a Disk with No
Subdisks” on page 93.
Table A-3 Creating and Administering Disk Groups
Command Description
vxdg init diskgroup
[diskname=]devicename
Creates a disk group using a
pre-initialized disk. See “Creating a
Disk Group” on page 136.
Table A-2 Administering Disks (Continued)
Command Description