VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Migration Guide (September 2004)

Chapter 2
Converting LVM to VxVM
Examples
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Examples
Example: displaying the vxvmconvert menu
To display the vxvmconvert menu, use the following command:
# vxvmconvert
The following menu is displayed:
Volume Manager Support Operations
Menu: Volume Manager/LVM_Conversion
1 Analyze LVM Volume Groups for Conversion
2 Convert LVM Volume Groups to VxVM
3 Roll back from VxVM to LVM
list List disk information
listvg List LVM Volume Group information
? Display help about menu
?? Display help about the menuing system
q Exit from menus
Example: listing disk information
The list option of vxvmconvert displays information about the disks on a system. Select the list option
from the vxvmconvert Main Menu:
Menu: Volume Manager/LVM_Conversion/list
# list
Use this menu option to display a list of disks. You can also choose to list
detailed information about a disk by entering a specific disk device address.
Enter disk device or "all" [<address>,all,q,?](default: all) x
DEVICE DISK GROUP STATUS
c0t5d0 - - online
c0t8d0 - - LVM
c0t9d0 - - LVM
c0t10d0 disk01 rootdg online
c0t11d0 - - online
Device to list in detail [<address>,none,q,?] (default: none) none
Example: listing LVM volume group information
To list LVM volume group information, use the listvg option of vxvmconvert.
Select the listvg option from the vxvmconvert Main Menu:
Menu: Volume Manager/LVM_Conversion/ListLVMVolumeGroups
# listvg
Use this menu option to display a list of LVM volume groups. You
can also choose to list detailed information about the LVM
volume groups at a specific disk device address.