VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Volume Tasks
Removing a RAID-5 Log
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Removing a RAID-5 Log
NOTE You may need an additional license to use this feature.
To remove a RAID-5 log, first dissociate the log from its volume and then
remove the log and any associated subdisks completely.
To remove a RAID-5 log from an existing volume, use the following
procedure:
• Dissociate and remove the log from its volume in one operation with
the following command:
# vxplex -o rm dis plex_name
• To identify the log plex, use the following command:
# vxprint -ht volume_name
where volume_name is the name of the RAID-5 volume. This produces
output that lists a plex with the STATE field of LOG.
For example, to disassociate and remove the log plex volraid-02 from
volraid, use the following command:
# vxplex -o rm dis volraid-02
You can also remove a RAID-5 log with the vxassist command, as
follows:
# vxassist remove log volume_name
Use the attribute nlog= to specify the number of logs to be removed. By
default, the vxassist command removes one log.
For more information on volume STATES, see Chapter 8, Recovery,.