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Creating and managing volume sets

The following command examples show how to create and manage volume sets.

 To create and manage volume sets

# vxassist make vol1 10m

# vxvset make myvset vol1

# vxassist make vol2 50m

# vxassist make vol3 50m

# vxvset addvol myvset vol2

# vxvset addvol myvset vol3

# vxvset list myvset

VOLUME INDEX LENGTH STATE CONTEXT

vol1 0 20480 ACTIVE -

vol2 1 102400 ACTIVE -

vol3 2 102400 ACTIVE -

# ls -l /dev/vx/rdsk/rootdg/myvset

1 root root 108,70009 May 21 15:37 \

/dev/vx/rdsk/rootdg/myvset

# vxassist make vol4 50m

# ls -l /dev/vx/rdsk/rootdg/vol4

crw-- 1 root root 108,70012 May 21 15:43

/dev/vx/rdsk/rootdg/vol4

# vxvset addvol myvset vol4

# ls -l /dev/vx/rdsk/rootdg/vol4

/dev/vx/rdsk/rootdg/vol4: No such file or directory