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197Creating and administering disk groups
Reorganizing the contents of disk groups
imported disk group exists with the same name as the target disk group. An
existing deported disk group is destroyed if it has the same name as the
target disk group (as is the case for the
vxdg init command). The split
operation is illustrated in Figure 4-5.
Figure 4-5 Disk group split operation
■ join—removes all VxVM objects from an imported disk group and moves
them to an imported target disk group. The source disk group is removed
when the join is complete. The
join operation is illustrated in Figure 4-6.
Source disk group
Source disk group New target disk group
After
split
Disks to be split into new disk group