AIX Storage Management

6.3.4 Varying On and Varying Off Volume Groups

Before administrative activities such as opening of logical volumes and mounting

of file systems can be performed, the relevant volume groups need to be made

available. This can be achieved by varying on a volume group using the

varyonvg command. Likewise, when access to a volume group needs to be

stopped entirely, it can be varied off after unmounting all file systems and

closing all open logical volumes within it. The

varyoffvg command can be used

to vary off a volume group.

During the varying on process, a number of different operations are performed in

order to make a volume group available. They are: ...