VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

Administering Disks
Renaming a Disk
Chapter 2104
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 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.