VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Migration Guide (August 2002)

Chapter 3, Command Differences
Final 24 July 2002 LVM and VxVM Command Equivalents
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vgreduce Reduces a volume
groupbyremovingone
or more disks from it.
vxdg rmdisk
vxdisk rm
vxdiskadm
Removes disks from a disk group.
Removes the specified disk access
record by disk access name.
Option 3 in the vxdiskadm menu
removes disks.
vgscan Scans all disks and
looks for logical
volume groups.
vxinfo
vxprint
vxdiskadm
Displays information about
volumes.
Displays complete or partial
informationfromrecordsinVxVM
disk group configurations.
Option list in the vxdiskadm
menu displays disk information.
vgsync Synchronizes mirrors
that are stale in one or
more logical volumes.
vxrecover Starts resynchronization and
recovery of volumes.
vgremove Removes thedefinition
of a volume group
from the system.
vxdg deport
vxdiskadm
Deports a disk group from the
system.
Option 9 in the vxdiskadm menu
removes a disk group.
vgexport Removes a volume
group from the system.
vxdg deport
vxdiskadm
Deports a disk group from the
system.
Option 9 in the vxdiskadm menu
removes a disk group.
vgimport Adds a volume group
to the system by
scanning physical
volumes which have
been exported using
vgexport.
vxdg import
vxdiskadm
Imports a disk group.
Option 8 in the vxdiskadm menu
imports a disk group.
No LVM command vxplex Operates on plex objects.
Table 2. Command Comparison
LVM Description/Action VxVM Description/Action