Veritas Volume Manager 5.1 SP1 Administrator"s Guide (5900-1506, April 2011)

■ Changing the read policy for mirrored volumes
■ Removing a volume
■ Moving volumes from a VM disk
■ Enabling FastResync on a volume
■ Performing online relayout
■ Converting between layered and non-layered volumes
■ Adding a RAID-5 log
About volume administration
Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) lets you perform common maintenance tasks
on volumes. These include the following:
■ Displaying volume information
■ Monitoring tasks
■ Resizing volumes
■ Adding and removing logs
■ Adding and removing mirrors
■ Removing volumes
■ Changing the layout of volumes without taking them offline
Note: To use most VxVM commands, you need superuser or equivalent privileges.
Displaying volume information
You can use the vxprint command to display information about how a volume is
configured.
To display the volume, plex, and subdisk record information for all volumes in
the system, use the following command:
# vxprint -hvt
You can also apply the vxprint command to a single disk group:
# vxprint -g mydg -hvt
Administering volumes
About volume administration
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