Veritas Volume Manager 5.1 SP1 Administrator"s Guide (5900-1506, April 2011)

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At the following prompt, either select the device name of the replacement
disk (from the list provided), press Return to choose the default disk, or enter
none if you are going to replace the physical disk:
The following devices are available as replacements:
c0t1d0
You can choose one of these disks now, to replace mydg02.
Select none if you do not wish to select a replacement disk.
Choose a device, or select none
[<device>,none,q,?] (default: c0t1d0)
Do not choose the old disk drive as a replacement even though it appears in
the selection list. If necessary, you can choose to initialize a new disk.
You can enter none if you intend to replace the physical disk.
See “Replacing a failed or removed disk” on page 134.
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If you chose to replace the disk in step 4, press Return at the following prompt
to confirm this:
VxVM NOTICE V-5-2-285 Requested operation is to remove mydg02
from group mydg. The removed disk will be replaced with disk device
c0t1d0. Continue with operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)
vxdiskadm displays the following messages to indicate that the original disk
is being removed:
VxVM NOTICE V-5-2-265 Removal of disk mydg02 completed
successfully.
VxVM NOTICE V-5-2-260 Proceeding to replace mydg02 with device
c0t1d0.
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You can now choose whether the disk is to be formatted as a CDS disk that is
portable between different operating systems, or as a non-portable
hpdisk-format disk:
Enter the desired format [cdsdisk,hpdisk,q,?]
(default: cdsdisk)
Enter the format that is appropriate for your needs. In most cases, this is the
default format, cdsdisk.
133Administering disks
Removing and replacing disks