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Administering disks

This chapter describes the operations for managing disks used by the Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM). This includes placing disks under VxVM control, initializing disks, encapsulating disks, mirroring the root disk, and removing and replacing disks.


  Note   Most VxVM commands require superuser or equivalent privileges.


For information about configuring and administering the dynamic multipathing (DMP) feature of VxVM that is used with multiported disk arrays, see Administering dynamic multipathing (DMP).