VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 User's Guide - VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (June 2002)

Destroying a Dynamic Disk Group
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Destroying a Dynamic Disk Group
Caution Destroying a dynamic disk group can result in data loss.
The Destroy Dynamic Disk Group procedure permanently removes a dynamic disk
groupfrom VxVMcontrol. This procedure alsoreinitializes all ofthe disks in the dynamic
disk group as empty disks and places them in the free disk pool for reuse.
Destroy a dynamic disk group only if you are sure that you no longer need the volumes
and datain the dynamic disk group.Since the last disk in adynamic disk group cannotbe
removed, destroying a dynamic disk group is useful for freeing the last disk in a dynamic
disk group for reuse.
▼ To destroy a dynamic disk group
1. Right-click on the appropriate host machine node.
2. Choose Destroy Dynamic Disk Group.
3. Complete the Destroy Dynamic Disk Group dialog box as follows:
When you have provided all necessary information in the dialog box, click OK.
Disk Group Name: Enter the name of the dynamic disk group to be destroyed.
Notes:
◆ Use the Destroy Dynamic Disk Group task with caution. Destroying a dynamic disk
group permanently removes the dynamic disk group from VxVM control and can result
in data loss.
◆ When a dynamic disk group is destroyed, its disks are returned to the free disk pool. Any
volumes in the dynamic disk group are removed.
◆ The rootdg disk group cannot be destroyed.
◆ A dynamic diskgroupcannot bedestroyed if anyvolumesinthatdynamicdisk groupare
in use (open) and/or contain mounted file systems.