VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Disk Tasks

Replacing a Disk

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You can choose an uninitialized disk, in which case the

disk

will be initialized, or you can choose a disk that you

have

already initialized using the Add or initialize a disk

operation.

Select a removed or failed disk [<disk>,list,q,?] disk02

Step 3. The vxdiskadm program displays the device names of the disk devices

available for use as replacement disks. Your system may use a device

name that differs from the examples.

Enter the device name of the device of your choice or press Return to

select the default device:

The following devices are available as replacements:

c1t0d0 c1t1d0

You can choose one of these disks to replace disk02.

Choose "none" to initialize another disk to replace

disk02.

Choose a device, or select "none"

[<device>,none,q,?] (default: c1t0d0)pa

Step 4. At the following prompt, press Return to replace the disk:

The requested operation is to use the initialized device

c1t0d0 to replace the removed or failed disk disk02 in

disk

group rootdg.

Continue with operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)

The vxdiskadm program displays the following success message:

Replacement of disk disk02 in group rootdg with disk

device

c1t0d0 completed successfully.

Step 5. At the following prompt, indicate whether you want to replace another

disk (y) or return to the vxdiskadm main menu (n):

Replace another disk? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)