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

Moving volumes from a VM disk
Before you disable or remove a disk, you can move the data from that disk to other
disks on the system that have sufficient space.
To move volumes from a disk
1
From the vxdiskadm main menu, select Move volumes from a disk .
2
At the following prompt, enter the disk name of the disk whose volumes you
want to move, as follows:
Enter disk name [<disk>,list,q,?] mydg01
You can now optionally specify a list of disks to which the volume(s) should
be moved. At the prompt, do one of the following:
■ Press Enter to move the volumes onto available space in the disk group.
■ Specify the disks in the disk group that should be used, as follows:
Enter disks [<disk ...>,list]
VxVM NOTICE V-5-2-283 Requested operation is to move all
volumes from disk mydg01 in group mydg.
NOTE: This operation can take a long time to complete.
Continue with operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)
As the volumes are moved from the disk, the vxdiskadm program displays
the status of the operation:
VxVM vxevac INFO V-5-2-24 Move volume voltest ...
When the volumes have all been moved, the vxdiskadm program displays the
following success message:
VxVM INFO V-5-2-188 Evacuation of disk mydg02 is complete.
3
At the following prompt, indicate whether you want to move volumes from
another disk (y) or return to the vxdiskadm main menu (n):
Move volumes from another disk? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)
Administering volumes
Moving volumes from a VM disk
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