Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Administrator's Guide (September 2006)

118 Administering disks
Displaying disk information
Displaying disk information with vxdiskadm
Displaying disk information shows you which disks are initialized, to which disk groups
they belong, and the disk status. The
list command displays device names for all
recognized disks, the disk names, the disk group names associated with each disk, and the
status of each disk.
To display disk information
1Start the vxdiskadm program, and select
list (List disk information)
from the main menu.
2 At the following display, enter the address of the disk you want to see, or enter all
for a list of all disks:
List disk information
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/ListDisk
VxVM INFO V-5-2-475 Use this menu operation to display a list of
disks. You can also choose to list detailed information about
the disk at a specific disk device address.
Enter disk device or "all" [<address>,all,q,?] (default: all)
■ If you enter all, VxVM displays the device name, disk name, group, and
status.
■ If you enter the address of the device for which you want information, complete
disk information (including the device name, the type of disk, and information
about the public and private areas of the disk) is displayed.
Once you have examined this information, press Return to return to the main menu.