VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Storage Administrator Administrator's Guide

Disk Tasks
Removing a Disk
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click OK.
Notes:
• This task requires a disk name. You also need to specify whether the
disk should be placed in the free disk pool or removed from Volume
Manager control.
• If the disk contains a volume that has only one mirror and either has
a mounted file system or is used as a swap area, you must evacuate
the disk before you remove it.
• When a disk is removed from a disk group or Volume Manager
control, the disk cannot be accessed.
• A disk that is in use (i.e. contains volumes) should not be removed.
Removing a disk with volumes can result in loss of data or data
redundancy. If volumes exist on the disk to be removed, you can use
the Evacuate Disks task to move the volumes to another disk.
• The last disk in a disk group cannot be removed. To remove the last
disk in a disk group, the disk group must be destroyed. The last disk
in the rootdg disk group can never be removed.
• Any non-redundant volumes on the removed disk become disabled.