Veritas Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide (HP-UX 11i v3, February 2007)

Making a Disk Available for Hot-Relocation Use
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Making a Disk Available for Hot-Relocation Use
Free space is used automatically by hot-relocation in case spare space is not sufficient to
relocate failed subdisks. You can limit this free space usage by hot-relocation by specifying
which free disks should not be touched by hot-relocation. If a disk was previously
excluded from hot-relocation use, you can undo the exclusion and add the disk back to the
hot-relocation pool.
To make a disk available for hot-relocation use, use the following command:
# vxedit [-g diskgroup] set nohotuse=off diskname
Alternatively, using vxdiskadm:
1. Select menu item 16 (
Make a disk available for hot-relocation use)
from the vxdiskadm main menu.
2. At the following prompt, enter the disk media name (such as mydg01):
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/UnmarkSpareDisk
Use this operation to make a disk available for hot-relocation use.
This only applies to disks that were previously excluded from
hot-relocation use. This operation takes, as input, a disk name.
This is the same name that you gave to the disk when you added the
disk to the disk group.
Enter disk name [<disk>,list,q,?] mydg01
The following confirmation is displayed:
V-5-2-932 Making mydg01 in mydg available for hot-relocation use is
complete.
3. At the following prompt, indicate whether you want to add more disks to be excluded
from hot-relocation (y) or return to the vxdiskadm main menu (n):
Make another disk available for hot-relocation use? [y,n,q,?]
(default: n)