VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Migration Guide (August 2002)

LVM and VxVM Command Equivalents Final 24 July 2002
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lvlnboot Creates root, primary
and secondary swap
and dump volumes. It
also creates boot areas
on the disk.
There is no equivalent command
for this release.
lvcreate Creates a logical
volume.
vxassist Creates volumes with the make
parameter.
Example: vxassist make
vol_name 100M layout=stripe
lvextend Increases disk space
allocated to a logical
volume.
vxassist Increases a volume in size with the
growto or growby parameter.
Example: vxassist growto
vol_name 200M,
vxassist growby vol_name
100M
vxassist creates and modifies
volumes.
lvreduce Decreases disk space
allocated to a logical
volume.
vxassist Decreases a volume in size with the
shrinkto or shrinkby
parameters.
Example: vxassist shrinkto
vol_name 200M
Make sure you shrink the file
system before shrinking the
volume.
lvremove Removes one or more
logical volumes from a
volume group.
vxedit
vxassist
Removes volumes with the-rf rm
parameters.
Example: vxedit -rf rm
vol_name
Removes a volume with the
remove volume parameters.
Example: vxassist remove
volume vol_name
Table 2. Command Comparison
LVM Description/Action VxVM Description/Action