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

Disk Tasks
Removing a Disk from a Dynamic Disk Group
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• When a disk is removed from a dynamic disk group or VxVM control,
the disk cannot be accessed.
• A disk that is in use (that is., contains volumes) must 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, use the
Evacuate Disks task to move the volumes to another disk.
• The last disk in a dynamic disk group cannot be removed. To remove
the last disk in a dynamic disk group, the dynamic disk group must
be destroyed. The last disk in the rootdg dynamic disk group can
never be removed.
• Any non-redundant volumes on the removed disk become disabled.