VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Removing a Snapshot Volume Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:55am
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Removing a Snapshot Volume
If a snapshot volume is no longer needed, you can remove it and free up the disk space for other
uses by using the vxedit rm command.
Prerequisites
◆ You must be logged in as root.
◆ If the volume is on a mounted file system, you must unmount it before removing the volume.
▼ To remove a snapplan and snapshot volume
1. To remove the snapshot and free up the storage used by it:
If the snapshot has been taken:
a. Remove the snapshot as follows:
# vxsnap -g diskgroup dis snapshot_volume
# vxvol -g diskgroup stop snapshot_volume
# vxedit -g diskgroup -rf rm snapshot_volume
If the snapshot has not been taken and the snapshot plex (mirror) exists:
b. Remove the snapshot as follows:
# vxsnap -g diskgroup rmmir volume
2. Remove the DCO and DCO volume:
# vxsnap -g diskgroup unprepare volume
3. Remove the snapplan.
# /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_vmchecksnap -D db -f snapplan -o remove
Example
To remove a snapshot volume from disk group PRODdg:
# vxsnap -g PRODdg dis snap_v1
# vxvol -g PRODdg stop snap_v1
# vxedit -g PRODdg -rf rm snap_v1