vxvmboot(1M)                     VxVM 3.5                      vxvmboot(1M)
                                 1 Jun 2002



 NAME    [Toc]    [Back]
      vxvmboot - prepare VERITAS Volume Manager volume as a root, boot,
      primary swap or dump volume

 SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]
      /sbin/vxvmboot [-b|-d|-r|-s] [-v] -o offset -l length rawpath

      /sbin/vxvmboot -v rawpath

      /sbin/vxvmboot -c

 DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]
      The vxvmboot command updates information in the LABEL file for the lif
      disk specified by the pathname of its character (raw) device node,
      rawpath.  The volume at the specified offset and length becomes the
      boot, root, primary swap or dump volume when the system is next
      booted.

      This command is normally invoked by the vxbootsetup utility.

 OPTIONS    [Toc]    [Back]
      -b        Specifies the volume type as a boot volume with name
                standvol.

      -c        Is used to update the /stand/rootconf file with the offset
                and length of the rootvol. The usage is slightly different
                when the -c argument is used. The rawpath argument is not
                used with this invocation. Instead the path of the boot
                device is extracted from the /stand/bootconf file.  Also,
                the -o and -l arguments are not used to specify the offset
                and length.  Instead, the offset and length of the rootvol
                are obtained from the LIF LABEL file on the boot device.

                The -c option would normally be used in the /sbin/ioinitrc
                script to update the /stand/rootconf file, when the boot
                disk is VxVM rootable.

      -d        Specifies the volume type as a dump volume with name
                dumpvol.

                If a dumpvol volume exists on the specified disk, the extent
                information from this volume is used. If no such volume
                exists, the extent information of the swap volume is used
                instead, and swapvol performs the dual role of swap device
                and dump device.

      -l length Specifies the length of the volume in units of 1024-byte
                blocks.

      -o offset Specifies the start of the volume as the number of 1024-byte
                blocks from the beginning of the disk.



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 vxvmboot(1M)                     VxVM 3.5                      vxvmboot(1M)
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      -r        Specifies the volume type as a root volume with name
                rootvol.

      -s        Specifies the volume type as a swap volume with name
                swapvol.

      -v        When used with one of the options -b, -d, -r or -s, displays
                the contents of the updated LABEL file.  Otherwise, this
                option may be used to display the contents of the LABEL file
                on the specified lif disk.

           Note: The -b, -c, -d, -r and -s options are mutually exclusive.
           If more than one of these options is specified, the vxvmboot
           command exits without performing any operation.

 ARGUMENTS    [Toc]    [Back]
      rawpath   Specifies the pathname of the character (raw) device node
                for the lif disk.

 SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]
      lif(4), mkboot(1M), vxbootsetup(1M)


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