Overview of Maintaining DiskSuite Objects

This chapter describes maintenance tasks you may need to perform after creating a DiskSuite object, such as:

• Checking object status

• Replacing or repairing an errored object

• Expanding a metadevice and growing a file system

• Renaming an object

• Unmirroring a file system

For general information on DiskSuite, see Solstice DiskSuite 4.2.1 Reference Guide. Refer to Chapter 2, Creating DiskSuite Objects for information on creating metadevices and hot spare pools.

Prerequisites for Maintaining DiskSuite Objects

Here are the prerequisites for the steps in this chapter:

• Make sure you have a current backup of all data.

• Make sure you have root privilege.

• If using the graphical user interface, start DiskSuite Tool.

  To work with "local" metadevices (metadevices not in a diskset configuration), type:

# metatool &

To work with metadevices in a diskset, make sure you are the diskset owner and type:

# metatool -s diskset_name &