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

Commands Summary
Appendix A 415
vxplex mv oldplex newplex Replaces a plex. See “Moving Plexes” on
page 205.
vxplex cp volume newplex Copies a volume onto a plex. See
“Copying Plexes” on page 206.
vxplex fix clean plex Sets the state of a plex in an unstartable
volume to CLEAN. See “Reattaching
Plexes” on page 204.
vxplex -o rm dis plex Dissociates and removes a plex from a
volume. See “Dissociating and
Removing Plexes” on page 207.
Table A-6 Creating Volumes
Command Description
vxassist [-g diskgroup]
maxsize \ layout=layout
[attributes]
Displays the maximum size of volume
that can be created. See “Discovering
the Maximum Size of a Volume” on
page 220.
vxassist make volume
length \ [layout=layout ]
[attributes]
Creates a volume. See “Creating a
Volume on Any Disk” on page 221 and
“Creating a Volume on Specific Disks”
on page 222
vxassist make volume
length \ layout=mirror
[nmirror=N] [attributes]
Creates a mirrored volume. See
“Creating a Mirrored Volume” on
page 228.
vxassist make volume
length \ layout=layout
exclusive=on [attributes]
Creates a volume that may be opened
exclusively by a single node in a cluster.
See Figure on page 366.
Table A-5 Creating and Administering Plexes (Continued)
Command Description