I've got a Linux box that I'm pretty sure is having some disk issues. iostat isn't installed, but vmstat is, so i've been trying to use that to do some initial diagnostics while I go through our company's change control process to get iostat installed.

The problem I'm having is that the disks that would be an issue are VxVM volumes and vmstat doesn't give the volume name, just some sort of internal identifier such as VxVM65529. Is there a way to translate this ID into a volume name?

Thanks a lot!

VxVM is Veritas, correct ? What is your OS ? Can't you run some other diagnostic tools, depending on what's installed ? Look at the veritas' help and see if you have those commands available.
cat /proc/diskstats if you're running Linux for more info on drives and volumes.

VxVM refers to veritas Volume Manager

vmstat is genric *nix command that repost info on virtual memory. Ít ha sno access to a veritas Volume -d refers to the ext3 or other Linux disk

use :

vxdg list

to show any disk groups then :

vxprint -g [diskgroup] -vt [vol_name]


Lastly, NEVER let anyone near a Veritas Disk who hasn't been trained to
(I'm trainded & I'm not offering!)

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would you perchance have vxstat installed, if it's vxvm volumes that would be a logical choice.

vmstat -d gives disk information. I was trying to use that, but it wasn't helping all that much.

I've never been officially trained on Veritas, but I use it enough without too many problems... yet.


vxstat is awesome. Thanks for that suggestion.