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.
/dev/md/dsk/d0 |
Block volume d0 |
/dev/md/dsk/d1 |
Block volume d1 |
/dev/md/rdsk/d126 |
Raw volume d126 |
/dev/md/rdsk/d127 |
Raw volume d127 |