VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

Administering Volumes

Stopping a Volume

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Stopping a Volume

Stopping a volume renders it unavailable to the user, and changes the

volume state from ENABLED or DETACHED to DISABLED. If the

volume cannot be disabled, it remains in its current state. To stop a

volume, use the following command:

# vxvol stop volume ...

For example, to stop a volume named vol01, use the following command:

# vxvol stop vol01

To stop all ENABLED volumes, use the following command:

# vxvol stopall

To stop all ENABLED volumes in a speciﬁed disk group, use the

following command:

# vxvol -g diskgroup stopall

Putting a Volume in Maintenance Mode

If all mirrors of a volume become STALE, you can place the volume in

maintenance mode. Then you can view the plexes while the volume is

DETACHED and determine which plex to use for reviving the others. To

place a volume in maintenance mode, use the following command:

# vxvol maint volume

To assist in choosing the revival source plex, use vxprint to list the

stopped volume and its plexes.

To take a plex (in this example, vol01-02) ofﬂine, use the following

command:

# vxmend off vol01-02

The vxmend on command can change the state of an OFFLINE plex of a

DISABLED volume to STALE. For example, to put a plex named

vol01-02 in the STALE state, use the following command:

# vxmend on vol01-02

Running the vxvol start command on the volume then revives the plex as

described in the next section.