VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Migration Guide
Command Differences
Comparison of LVM and VxVM Tasks
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LVM Display information about
volume groups.
vgdisplay -v /dev/
vol_grp
VxVM Display disk group information.
Display information about a
speciļ¬c disk group.
vxdisk list
vxprint -g
disk_group
vxdg list
vxdisk list
disk_group
LVM Display information about
physical volumes.
pvdisplay /dev/dsk/
disk_name
VxVM Display information about
Volume Manager volumes.
vxinfo or vxprint
LVM Remove a logical volume. lvremove /dev/
vol_grp
/
lvol_name
VxVM Remove a volume. vxedit rm
vol_name
LVM Remove disks from a volume
group or reduce the number of
disks in the volume group.
vgreduce /dev/
vol_grp
/dev/dsk/
disk_name
VxVM Remove disks from a disk
group.
vxdisk rm
disk_group
vxdg rmdisk
disk_name
vxdg -g
group_name
rmdisk
disk_name
LVM Remove an entire volume
group.
Before attempting to remove
the volume group, you must
remove the logical volumes
using lvremove, and all
physical volumes except the
last one using vgreduce.
vgremove /dev/
vol_grp
Table 3-2 LVM and VxVM Task Comparison (Continued)
Task
Type
Description Example