VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

Administering Hot-Relocation

Removing a Disk from Use as a Hot-Relocation Spare

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Removing a Disk from Use as a Hot-Relocation

Spare

While a disk is designated as a spare, the space on that disk is not used

for the creation of VxVM objects within its disk group. If necessary, you

can free a spare disk for general use by removing it from the pool of

hot-relocation disks.

To remove a spare from the hot-relocation pool, use the following

command:

# vxedit set spare=off diskname

For example, to make disk01 available for normal use, use the following

command:

# vxedit set spare=off disk01

Alternatively, you can use vxdiskadm to remove a disk from the

hot-relocation pool:

Step 1. Select menu item (Turn off the spare ﬂag on a disk) from the vxdiskadm

main menu.

Step 2. At the following prompt, enter the name of a spare disk (such as disk01):

Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/UnmarkSpareDisk

Use this operation to turn off the spare flag on a disk.

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,?] disk01

The vxdiskadm program displays the following conﬁrmation:

Disk disk01 in rootdg no longer marked as a spare disk.

Step 3. At the following prompt, indicate whether you want to disable more

spare disks (y) or return to the vxdiskadm main menu (n):

Turn-off spare flag on another disk? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)