Difference between "vgchange -a s /dev/vg03"

[Md. Minhaz Khan]

Difference between "vgchange -a s /dev/vg03"
and "vgchange -S y /dev/vg03"

Also Which command is appropiate(vgchange -a s vg03 or vgchange -S y vg03) for the below output:

# vgdisplay /dev/vg03

--- Volume groups ---
VG Name /dev/vg05
VG Write Access read/write
VG Status available, shared, server -------------------------------------------->
Max LV 255
Cur LV 212
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Thanks
Minhaz

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi,

Activate volume group in shared mode
# vgchange -a s /dev/vg03

Enable volume group for HA cluster and mark as sharable
# vgchange -c y -S y /dev/vg03

Suraj

[Sajjad Sahir]

Dear Minhaz

vgchange -a s /dev/vg03

means activate the sharing

vgchange -a n means deactivate the volume group

vgchange -a y activate the volume group

vgchange -S y -c y means enable the volume group in shared mode and ha

etc....

[Md. Minhaz Khan]

Thanks a lot to all.