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

The vxedit command changes attributes of subdisks and other VxVM objects. To
change subdisk attributes, use the following command:
# vxedit [-g diskgroup] set attribute=value ... subdisk ...
The subdisk fields you can change with the vxedit command include the following:
Subdisk name.name
Persistent utility field(s) used to manage objects and communication between
different commands and Symantec products.
putiln field attributes are maintained on reboot. putiln fields are organized
as follows:
■ putil0 is set by VxVM.
■ putil1 is set by other Symantec products such as Storage Foundation
Manager (SFM), or the Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) console.
■ putil2 is available for you to set for site-specific purposes.
If a command is stopped in the middle of an operation, these fields may need
to be cleaned up.
putiln
Nonpersistent (temporary) utility field(s) used to manage objects and
communication between different commands and Symantec products.
tutiln field attributes are not maintained on reboot. tutiln fields are
organized as follows:
■ tutil0 is set by VxVM.
■ tutil1 is set by other Symantec products such as Veritas Enterprise
Administrator (VEA).
■ tutil2 is available for you to set for site-specific purposes.
If a command is stopped in the middle of an operation, these fields may need
to be cleaned up.
tutiln
Subdisk length. This value is a standard Veritas Volume Manager length number.
See the vxintro(1M) manual page.
You can only change the length of a subdisk if the subdisk is disassociated. You
cannot increase the length of a subdisk to the point where it extends past the
end of the disk or it overlaps a reserved disk region on another disk.
len
Comment.comment
For example, to change the comment field of a subdisk named mydg02-01 in the
disk group, mydg, use the following command:
# vxedit -g mydg set comment="subdisk comment" mydg02-01
257Creating and administering subdisks
Changing subdisk attributes