VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Migration Guide (August 2002)

LVM and VxVM Command Equivalents Final 24 July 2002
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pvmove Moves allocated
physical extents from
source to destination
within a volume group.
vxevac
vxsd mv
vxdiskadm
Moves volumes off a disk.
Performs volume operations on a
subdisk. Moves the contents of old
subdisk onto the new subdisks and
replaces old sub disk with the new
subdisks for any associations.
The vxdiskadm script presents a
menu of possible operations to the
user.
Option 7 in the vxdiskadm menu
moves volumes.
pvremove Removes the LVM
header information
and releases the disk
from LVM control.
vxdiskunsetup Removes the VxVM header
information and releases the disk
from VxVM control.
vgcreate Creates a volume
group.
vxdiskadd
vxdg init
Creates a new disk group and/or
adds disks to a disk group.
vgdisplay Displays information
on all volume groups.
vxdg list
vxprint
Displays the contents of a disk
group.
Displays information about all
objects or a subset of objects.
vgchange Activates or
deactivates one or
more volume groups.
vxdg -g
diskgroup set
activation=
mode
Activates a shared disk group.
vgextend Extends a volume
groupbyaddingoneor
more disks to it.
vxdiskadd
vxdiskadm
Adds a disk to the disk group.
Option 1 in the vxdiskadm menu
adds disks to the disk group.
Table 2. Command Comparison
LVM Description/Action VxVM Description/Action