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

The context field contains details of any string that the application has set up for

the volume or volume set to tag its purpose.

Stopping and starting volume sets

Under some circumstances, you may need to stop and restart a volume set. For

example, a volume within the set may have become detached, as shown here:

# vxvset -g mydg list set1

VOLUME INDEX LENGTH KSTATE CONTEXT

vol1 0 12582912 DETACHED -

vol2 1 12582912 ENABLED -

vol3 2 12582912 ENABLED -

To stop and restart one or more volume sets, use the following commands:

# vxvset [-g diskgroup] stop volset ...

# vxvset [-g diskgroup] start volset ...

For the example given previously, the effect of running these commands on the

component volumes is shown below:

# vxvset -g mydg stop set1

# vxvset -g mydg list set1

VOLUME INDEX LENGTH KSTATE CONTEXT

vol1 0 12582912 DISABLED -

vol2 1 12582912 DISABLED -

vol3 2 12582912 DISABLED -

# vxvset -g mydg start set1

# vxvset -g mydg list set1

VOLUME INDEX LENGTH KSTATE CONTEXT

vol1 0 12582912 ENABLED -

vol2 1 12582912 ENABLED -

vol3 2 12582912 ENABLED -

Creating and administering volume sets

Stopping and starting volume sets

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