VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

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Moving Disks between Disk Groups

To move a disk between disk groups, remove the disk from one disk

group and add it to the other. For example, to move the physical disk

c0t3d0 (attached with the disk name disk04) from disk group rootdg and

add it to disk group mktdg, use the following commands:

# vxdg rmdisk disk04

# vxdg -g mktdg adddisk mktdg02=c0t3d0

CAUTION This procedure does not save the conﬁgurations nor data on the disks.

You can also move a disk by using the vxdiskadm command. Select item

3 (Remove a disk) from the main menu, and then select item 1 (Add or

initialize a disk).

See “Moving Objects Between Disk Groups” on page 181 for an

alternative and preferred method of moving disks between disk groups.

This method preserves VxVM objects, such as volumes, that are

conﬁgured on the disks.