VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Administrator's Guide (September 2002)

Chapter 2, Administering Disks

Removing and Replacing Disks

3. When you select a diskto remove for replacement, all volumes that are affected bythe

operation are displayed, for example:

The following volumes will lose mirrors as a result of this

operation:

home src

No data on these volumes will be lost.

The following volumes are in use, and will be disabled as a result

of this operation:

mkting

Any applications using these volumes will fail future accesses.

These volumes will require restoration from backup.

Are you sure you want do this? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)

To remove the disk, causing the named volumes to be disabled and data to be lost

when the disk is replaced, enter y or press Return.

To abandon removal of the disk, and back up or move the data associated with the

volumes that would otherwise be disabled, enter n or q and press Return.

For example, to move the volume mkting to a disk other than disk02, use this

command:

# vxassist move mkting !disk02

After backing up or moving the data in the volumes, start again from step 1 above.

4. At the following prompt, either select the device name of the replacement disk (from

the list provided), press Return to choose the default disk, or enter none to defer

replacing the disk until a later date:

The following devices are available as replacements:

c0t1d0

You can choose one of these disks now, to replace disk02.

Select “none” if you do not wish to select a replacement disk.

Choose a device, or select “none”

[<device>,none,q,?] (default: c0t1d0)

Note Do not choose the old disk drive as a replacement even though it appears in the

selection list. If necessary, you can choose to initialize a new disk.

If you choose to deferreplacing the faileddisk, seethe followingsection, “Replacing a

Failed or Removed Disk.”