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Chapter 7: Creating and Administering XLV Logical Volumes


This chapter describes the procedures for creating and administering XLV logical volumes using command-line utilities. A graphical user interface for performing many of these procedures is available from the xlvm command. See its online help for more information about xlvm.

The major sections in this chapter are:


Verifying That Plexing Is Supported
Creating Volume Objects With xlv_make
Displaying Logical Volume Objects
Adding a Volume Element to a Plex (Growing a Logical Volume)
Adding a Plex to a Logical Volume
Detaching a Plex From a Logical Volume
Deleting an XLV Object
Removing and Mounting a Plex
Creating Plexed Logical Volumes for Root
Booting the System Off an Alternate Plex
Configuring the System for More Than Ten XLV Logical Volumes
Converting lv Logical Volumes to XLV Logical Volumes
Creating a Record of XLV Logical Volume Configurations

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