Veritas Volume Manager 5.0.1 Migration Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

Table 3-1
Command comparison
Description/actionVxVMDescription/actionLVM
Creates, removes, and modifies Volume
Manager records.
vxedit
or
vxvol set
Changes the characteristics of logical
volumes.
lvchange
Resizes a file system and its underlying
volume at the same time.
vxresizeThere is no single equivalent LVM
command.
There is no equivalent command for
this release.
Creates root, primary and secondary
swap and dump volumes. It also creates
boot areas on the disk.
lvlnboot
Creates volumes with the make
parameter.
Example:
vxassist make
vol_name 100M
layout=stripe
vxassistCreates a logical volume.lvcreate
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.
vxassistIncreases disk space allocated to a
logical volume.
lvextend
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.
vxassistDecreases disk space allocated to a
logical volume.
lvreduce
Command differences
LVM and VxVM command equivalents
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