Solaris Volume Manager -6 [Volume Rename]

                           

                   SVM-6

What we will learn in next Few Pages

·         Renaming Volumes

Currently we have this situation,

root@sol-test-1:>/#metastat -c

d5               m  2.3GB d41 d42

    d41          s  2.3GB c1t0d0s4

    d42          s  2.3GB c1t1d0s4

d4               m  1.0GB d31 d32

    d31          s  1.0GB c1t0d0s3

    d32          s  1.0GB c1t1d0s3

d3               m  1.0GB d21 d22

    d21          s  1.0GB c1t0d0s1

    d22          s  1.0GB c1t1d0s1

d2               m  7.3GB d11 d12

    d11          s  7.3GB c1t0d0s0

    d12          s  7.3GB c1t1d0s0

Means all good…

I do not like the name of /opt i.e. d5, so I want to change it to d500

First stop any application running on that volume,

Unmounts that volume

root@sol-test-1:>/#umount /opt

Then change the name

root@sol-test-1:>/#metarename d5 d500

d5: has been renamed to d500

#metarename <old name> <new name>

root@sol-test-1:>/#metastat -c -i d500

d500             m  2.3GB d41 d42

    d41          s  2.3GB c1t0d0s4

    d42          s  2.3GB c1t1d0s4

Are we done?

Logically done, but not technically…

We need to alter /etc/vfstab also

root@sol-test-1:>/#vi /etc/vfstab

/dev/md/dsk/d500  /dev/md/rdsk/d500 /opt    ufs     2       yes     -

root@sol-test-1:>/#mount /opt

OK… renaming has been done,

We cannot rename following volumes

·         Soft partitions

·         Volumes on which SP’s are build

·         Log devices

·         HSP’s