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

Administering Disks
Removing Disks
Chapter 2 93
Removing a Disk with No Subdisks
To remove a disk that contains no subdisks from its disk group, run the
vxdiskadm program and select item 2 (Remove a disk) from the main
menu, and respond to the prompts as shown in this example to remove
disk02:
Enter disk name [<disk>,list,q,?] disk02
Requested operation is to remove disk disk02 from group rootdg.
Continue with operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) y
Removal of disk disk02 is complete.
Clobber disk headers? [y,n,q,?] (default: n) y
Enter y to remove the disk completely from VxVM control. If you do not
want to remove the disk completely from VxVM control, press Return or
enter n.