VERITAS Volume Manager 5.0 Migration Guide (September 2006)

51Command differences
LVM and VxVM command equivalents
pvremove Removes the LVM
header information and
releases the disk from
LVM control.
vxdiskunsetu
p
Removes the VxVM header
information and releases the disk
from VxVM control.
vgcreate Creates a volume
group.
vxdiskadd
vxdg init
Creates a new disk group and/or
adds disks to a disk group.
vgdisplay Displays information
on all volume groups.
vxdg list
vxprint
Displays the contents of a disk
group.
Displays information about all
objects or a subset of objects.
vgchange Activates or deactivates
one or more volume
groups.
vxdg -g
diskgroup set
activation=
mode
Activates a shared disk group.
vgextend Extends a volume
group by adding one or
more disks to it.
vxdiskadd
vxdiskadm
Adds a disk to the disk group.
Option 1 in the vxdiskadm menu
adds disks to the disk group.
vgreduce Reduces a volume
group by removing one
or more disks from it.
vxdg rmdisk
vxdisk rm
vxdiskadm
Removes disks from a disk group.
Removes the specified disk access
record by disk access name.
Option 3 in the vxdiskadm menu
removes disks.
vgscan Scans all disks and
looks for logical
volume groups.
vxinfo
vxprint
vxdiskadm
Displays information about
volumes.
Displays complete or partial
i n f o r m a t i o n f r o m r e c o r d s i n V x V M
disk group configurations.
Option list in the vxdiskadm
menu displays disk information.
Table 3-1 Command comparison
LVM Description/action VxVM Description/action