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Renaming a disk

If you do not specify a VM disk name, VxVM gives the disk a default name when you add the disk to VxVM control. The VM disk name is used by VxVM to identify the location of the disk or the disk type. To change the disk name to reflect a change of use or ownership, use the following command:

# vxedit [-g diskgroup] rename old_diskname new_diskname

For example, you might want to rename disk mydg03, as shown in the following output from vxdisk list, to mydg02: #

# vxdisk list

DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS

c0t0d0s2 auto:sliced mydg01 mydg online

c1t0d0s2 auto:sliced mydg03 mydg online

c1t1d0s2 auto:sliced - - online

You would use the following command to rename the disk.

# vxedit -g mydg rename mydg03 mydg02

To confirm that the name change took place, use the vxdisk list command again:

# vxdisk list

DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS

c0t0d0s2 auto:sliced mydg01 mydg online

c1t0d0s2 auto:sliced mydg02 mydg online

c1t1d0s2 auto:sliced - - online


  Note   By default, VxVM names subdisk objects after the VM disk on which they are located. Renaming a VM disk does not automatically rename the subdisks on that disk.