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

Moving Volumes from a VM Disk
206 VERITAS Volume Manager Administrator’s Guide
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. To do this, ensure that the target disks have sufficient space, and then use
the following procedure:
1. Select menu item 6 (Move volumes from a disk) from the vxdiskadm main
menu.
2. At the following prompt, enter the disk name of the disk whose volumes you wish to
move, as follows:
Move volumes from a disk
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/Evacuate
Use this menu operation to move any volumes that are using a
disk onto other disks. Use this menu immediately prior to
removing a disk, either permanently or for replacement. You can
specify a list of disks to move volumes onto, or you can move
the volumes to any available disk space in the same disk group.
NOTE: Simply moving volumes off of a disk, without also removing
the disk, does not prevent volumes from being moved onto
the disk by future operations. For example, using two
consecutive move operations may move volumes from the
second disk to the first.
Enter disk name [<disk>,list,q,?] disk01
After the following display, you can optionally specify a list of
disks to which the volume(s) should be moved.
You can now specify a list of disks to move onto. Specify a
list of disk media names (e.g., disk01) all on one line
separated by blanks. If you do not enter any disk media names,
then the volumes will be moved to any available space in the
disk group.
At the following prompt, press Return to move the volumes:
Requested operation is to move all volumes from disk disk01 in
group rootdg.
NOTE: This operation can take a long time to complete.
Continue with operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)