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Using Other Utilities to Determine Disk Availability

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You can determine which disks are in use with the lvm(7M) (Logical Volume Manager) and VxVM (Veritas Volume Manager) commands. For example, to see which disks are in use by lvm, enter this command:

# /usr/sbin/vgdisplay -v | /usr/bin/more

and look in the output for PV Name, which describes physical volumes.

This information is under the Physical Volumes heading. It looks similar to this:

--- Physical Volumes --- PV Name /dev/dsk/c2t3d0 PV Status available Total PE 4340 Free PE 428 Autoswitch On

You can use the vxdisk -o alldgs list command to display information about all disks managed by VxVM. Do not specify any disk in use by VxVM as a clone target.

The swapinfo command can be used to display information about disks currently used for swap.

The HP System Management Homepage, hpsmh(1M), or System Administration Manager, sam(1M), can be used to investigate the disks on the system and their current usage.

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