VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Administrator's Guide (September 2002)

Chapter 8, Administering Volumes

Stopping a Volume

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vxtask Usage

To list all tasks currently running on the system, use the following command:

# vxtask list

To print tasks hierarchically, with child tasks following the parent tasks, us the -h option,

as follows:

# vxtask -h list

To trace all tasks in the disk group foodg that are currently paused, as well as any tasks

with the tag sysstart, use the following command:

# vxtask -G foodg -p -i sysstart list

Use the vxtask -p list command lists all paused tasks, and use vxtask resume to

continue execution (the task may be speciﬁed by its ID or by its tag):

# vxtask -p list

# vxtask resume 167

To monitor all tasks with the tag myoperation, use the following command:

# vxtask monitor myoperation

To cause all tasks tagged with recovall to exit, use the following command:

# vxtask abort recovall

This command causesVxVM toattempt toreversethe progress of theoperation sofar. For

an example of how to use vxtask to monitor and modify the progress of the Online

Relayout feature, see “Controlling the Progress of a Relayout” on page 223.

Stopping a Volume

Stopping a volume renders it unavailable to the user, and changes the volume state from

ENABLED or DETACHED to DISABLED. If the volume cannot be disabled, it remains in

its current state. To stop a volume, use the following command:

# vxvol stop volume ...

For example, to stop a volume named vol01, use the following command:

# vxvol stop vol01

To stop all ENABLED volumes, use the following command:

# vxvol stopall

To stop all ENABLED volumes in a speciﬁed disk group, use the following command:

# vxvol -g diskgroup stopall