VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Disk Tasks
Disabling a Disk
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Disabling a Disk
You can take a disk offline. If the disk is corrupted, you need to take it
offline and remove it. You may be moving the physical disk device to
another location tobe connected to another system. To take adisk offline,
first remove it from its disk group, and then use the following procedure:
Step 1. Select menu item 10 (Disable (offline) a disk device) from
the vxdiskadm main menu.
Step 2. At the following prompt, enter the address of the disk you want to
disable:
Disable (offline) a disk device
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/OfflineDisk
Use this menu operation to disable all access to a disk
device
by the Volume Manager. This operation can be applied
only to
disks that are not currently in a disk group. Use this
operation
if you intend to remove a disk from a system without
rebooting.
NOTE:Many systems do not support disks that can be
removed from
a system during normal operation. On such systems, the
offline operation is seldom useful.
Select a disk device to disable [<address>,list,q,?]
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The vxdiskadm program disables the specified disk.
Step 3. At the following prompt, indicate whether you want to disable another
device (y) or return to the vxdiskadm main menu (n):
Disable another device? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)