Veritas InfoScale™ 7.4.1 Virtualization Guide - Solaris

Examples of using the vxloadm utility

Use the vxloadm addall command to create device(s) mapping the various partition(s) contained in a VxVM volume. For example:

# /etc/vx/bin/vxloadm addall vol1 /dev/vx/dsk/testdg/vol1

This creates a device node entry for every slice or partition contained within the volume in the /dev/vxlo/dsk/ and /dev/vxlo/rdsk/ directories.

# ls -l /dev/vxlo/dsk/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Sep 25 14:04 vol1s0 
-> ../../../devices/pseudo/vxlo@0:vol1s0,1,blk
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Sep 25 14:04 vol1s3 
-> ../../../devices/pseudo/vxlo@0:vol1s3,2,blk

# ls -l /dev/vxlo/rdsk/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Sep 25 14:04 vol1s0 
-> ../../../devices/pseudo/vxlo@0:vol1s0,1,raw
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Sep 25 14:04 vol1s3 
-> ../../../devices/pseudo/vxlo@0:vol1s3,2,raw

Use the vxloadm get command to display the list of all currently mapped partition(s) created using the vxloadm utility. For example:

# /etc/vx/bin/vxloadm get
VxVM  INFO V-5-1-0      NAME       FILENAME              
MOUNT   OFFSET    C/H/S
VxVM  INFO V-5-1-15260  vol1s0  /dev/vx/dsk/testdg/vol1  
6180       6787/1/618
VxVM  INFO V-5-1-15260  vol1s3  /dev/vx/dsk/testdg/vol1  
4326000 50902/1/618

Use the appropriate file system commands to access the file system(s). For example:

# fstyp /dev/vxlo/rdsk/vol1s0
ufs
# mount -F ufs /dev/vxlo/dsk/vol1s0 /mnt

Use the vxloadm delete to remove the partition mappings of a volume. For example:

# /etc/vx/bin/vxloadm delete vol1s0
# /etc/vx/bin/vxloadm delete vol1s3