VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Migration Guide

Command Differences
LVM and VxVM Command Equivalents
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lvextend Increases disk space
allocated to a logical
volume.
vxassist Increases a volume in
size with the growto or
growby parameter.
Example: vxassist
growto vol_name 200M,
vxassist growby
vol_name 100M
vxassist creates and
modifies volumes.
lvreduce Decreases disk space
allocated to a logical
volume.
vxassist Decreases a volume in
size with the shrinkto
or shrinkby
parameters.
Example: vxassist
shrinkto vol_name
200M
Make sure you shrink
the file system before
shrinking the volume.
lvremove Removes one or more
logical volumes from a
volume group.
vxedit Removes volumes with
the -rf rm parameters.
Example: vxedit -rf
rm vol_name
vxassist Removes a volume with
the remove volume
parameters.
Example: vxassist
remove volume
vol_name
Table 3-1 Command Comparison (Continued)
LVM Description/Action VxVM Description/Action