Veritas Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide (HP-UX 11i v3, February 2007)

Chapter 2, Administering Disks

Renaming a Disk

If you do not specify a VM disk name, VxVM gives the disk a default name when you add

the disk to VxVM control. The VM disk name is used by VxVM to identify the location of

the disk or the disk type. To change the disk name to reflect a change of use or ownership,

use the following command:

# vxedit [-g diskgroup] rename old_diskname new_diskname

For example, you might want to rename disk mydg03, as shown in the following output

from vxdisk list, to mydg02: #

# vxdisk list

DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS

c0t0d0 auto:hpdisk mydg01 mydg online

c1t0d0 auto:hpdisk mydg03 mydg online

c1t1d0 auto:hpdisk - - online

You would use the following command to rename the disk.

# vxedit -g mydg rename mydg03 mydg02

To confirm that the name change took place, use the vxdisk list command again:

# vxdisk list

DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS

c0t0d0 auto:hpdisk mydg01 mydg online

c1t0d0 auto:hpdisk mydg02 mydg online

c1t1d0 auto:hpdisk - - online

Note By default, VxVM names subdisk objects after the VM disk on which they are

located. Renaming a VM disk does not automatically rename the subdisks on that

disk.