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

Table A-6
Creating volumes (continued)
DescriptionCommand
Initializes and zeros out a volume for
use.
See “Initializing and starting a volume”
on page 326.
Example:
# vxvol -g mydg init zero \
myvol
vxvol [-g
diskgroup] init zero \
volume
Table A-7
Administering volumes
DescriptionCommand
Adds a mirror to a volume.
See “Adding a mirror to a volume ”
on page 355.
Example:
# vxassist -g mydg mirror \
myvol mydg10
vxassist [-g diskgroup] mirror \
volume [attributes]
Removes a mirror from a volume.
See “Removing a mirror ” on page 357.
Example:
# vxassist -g mydg remove \
mirror myvol \!mydg11
Note: The ! character is a special
character in some shells. This example
shows how to escape it in a bash shell.
vxassist [-g diskgroup] remove \
mirror volume [attributes]
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