VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Administrator's Guide (September 2004)

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Requested operation is to remove disk disk01 from group rootdg.
Continue with operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)
The vxdiskadm utility removes the disk from the disk group and displays
the following success message:
Removal of disk disk01 is complete.
You can now remove the disk or leave it on your system as a replacement.
Step 5. At the following prompt, indicate whether you want to remove other
disks (y) or return to the vxdiskadm main menu (n):
Remove another disk? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)
Removing a Disk with Subdisks
You can remove a disk on which some subdisks are defined. For example,
you can consolidate all the volumes onto one disk. If you use the
vxdiskadm program to remove a disk, you can choose to move volumes off
that disk. To do this, run the vxdiskadm program and select item 2
(Remove a disk) from the main menu.
If the disk is used by some subdisks, the following message is displayed:
The following volumes currently use part of disk disk02:
home usrvol
Subdisks must be moved from disk02 before it can be removed.
Move subdisks to other disks? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)
If you choose y, then all subdisks are moved off the disk, if possible. Some
subdisks are not movable. A subdisk may not be movable for one of the
following reasons:
• There is not enough space on the remaining disks in the subdisk’s
disk group.
• Plexes or striped subdisks cannot be allocated on different disks from
existing plexes or striped subdisks in the volume.
If the vxdiskadm program cannot move some subdisks, remove some
plexes from some disks to free more space before proceeding with the
disk removal operation. See “Removing a Volume” on page 281 and
“Taking Plexes Offline” on page 202 for information on how to remove
volumes and plexes.