VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

Administering Volumes

Removing a Mirror

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Removing a Mirror

When a mirror is no longer needed, you can remove it to free up disk

space.

NOTE The last valid plex associated with a volume cannot be removed.

To remove a mirror from a volume, use the following command:

# vxassist remove mirror volume

Additionally, you can use storage attributes to specify the storage to be

removed. For example, to remove a mirror on disk disk01, from volume

vol01, enter:

# vxassist remove mirror vol01 !disk01

For more information about storage attributes, see “Creating a Volume

on Speciﬁc Disks” on page 236.

Alternatively, use the following command to dissociate and remove a

mirror from a volume:

# vxplex -o rm dis plex

For example, to dissociate and remove a mirror named vol01-02, use the

following command:

# vxplex -o rm dis vol01-02

This command removes the mirror vol01-02 and all associated subdisks.

This is equivalent to entering the following separate commands:

# vxplex dis vol01-02

# vxedit -r rm vol01-02