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Displaying disk information

Before you use a disk, you need to know if it has been initialized and placed under VxVM control. You also need to know if the disk is part of a disk group, because you cannot create volumes on a disk that is not part of a disk group. The vxdisk list command displays device names for all recognized disks, the disk names, the disk group names associated with each disk, and the status of each disk.

To display information on all disks that are known to VxVM, use the following command:

# vxdisk list

VxVM returns a display similar to the following:

DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS

c0t0d0s2 auto:sliced mydg04 mydg online

c1t0d0s2 auto:sliced mydg03 mydg online

c1t1d0s2 auto:sliced - - online invalid

enc0_2 auto:sliced mydg02 mydg online

enc0_3 auto:sliced mydg05 mydg online

sena0_0 auto:sliced - - online

sena0_1 auto:sliced - - online


  Note   The phrase online invalid in the STATUS line indicates that a disk has not yet been added to VxVM control. These disks may or may not have been initialized by VxVM previously. Disks that are listed as online are already under VxVM control.


To display details on a particular disk that is defined to VxVM, use the following command:

# vxdisk [-v] list diskname

The -v option causes the command to additionally list all tags and tag values that are defined for the disk. Without this option, no tags are displayed.