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XLV Logical Volume Names

Volumes appear as block and character devices in the /dev directory. The device names for logical volumes are /dev/dsk/xlv/<volume_name> and /dev/rdsk/xlv/<volume_name>, where <volume_name> is a volume name specified when the volume is created using the xlv_make command.

When a volume is created on one system and moved (by moving the disks) to another system, the new volume name is the same as the original volume name with the hostname of the original system prepended. For example, if a volume called xlv0 is moved from a system called engrlab1 to a system called engrlab2, the device name of the volume on the new system is /dev/dsk/xlv/engrlab1.xlv0 (the old system name engrlab1 has been prepended to the volume name xlv0).


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