Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide

Command-Line Reference

Listed here are all the commands that you use to administer Solaris Volume Manager. For more detailed information, see the man pages.

Table B–1 Solaris Volume Manager Commands


Solaris Volume ManagerCommand	Description	Man page
`growfs`	Expands a UFS file system in a nondestructive fashion.	growfs(1M)
`metaclear`	Deletes active volumes and hot spare pools.	metaclear(1M)
`metadb`	Creates and deletes state database replicas.	metadb(1M)
`metadetach`	Detaches a volume from a RAID 1 (mirror) volume, or a logging device from a transactional volume.	metadetach(1M)
`metadevadm`	Checks device ID configuration.	metadevadm(1M)
`metaimport`	Moves disk sets from one system to another system.	metaimport(1M)
`metahs`	Manages hot spares and hot spare pools.	metahs(1M)
`metainit`	Configures volumes.	metainit(1M)
`metaoffline`	Places submirrors offline.	metaoffline(1M)
`metaonline`	Places submirrors online.	metaonline(1M)
`metaparam`	Modifies volume parameters.	metaparam(1M)
`metarecover`	Recovers configuration information for soft partitions.	metarecover(1M)
`metarename`	Renames and exchanges volume names.	metarename(1M)
`metareplace`	Replaces components in submirrors and RAID 5 volumes.	metareplace(1M)
`metaroot`	Sets up system files for mirroring root (`/`).	metaroot(1M)
`metaset`	Administers disk sets.	metaset(1M)
`metastat`	Displays the status of volumes or hot spare pools.	metastat(1M)
`metasync`	Resynchronizes volumes during reboot.	metasync(1M)
`metattach`	Attaches a component to a RAID 0 or RAID 1 volume, or a log device to a transactional volume.	metattach(1M)