Volume Name Requirements

There are a few rules that you must follow when assigning names for volumes:

• Volume names must begin with the letter “d” followed by a number (for example, d0).

• Instead of specifying the full volume name, such as /dev/md/dsk/d1, you can often use an abbreviated volume name, such as d1, with any meta* command.

• Like physical slices, volumes have logical names that appear in the file system. Logical volume names have entries in the /dev/md/dsk directory for block devices and the /dev/md/rdsk directory for raw devices.

• You can generally rename a volume, as long as the volume is not currently being used and the new name is not being used by another volume. For more information, see Exchanging Volume Names.

• Solaris Volume Manager has 128 default volume names from 0–127. The following table shows some example volume names.