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

At the prompt, press Return to make the mirror:

Continue with operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)

The vxdiskadm program displays the status of the mirroring operation, as

follows:

VxVM vxmirror INFO V-5-2-22 Mirror volume voltest-bk00

VxVM INFO V-5-2-674 Mirroring of disk mydg01 is complete.

At the prompt, indicate whether you want to mirror volumes on another disk

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

Mirror volumes on another disk? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)

Removing a mirror

When you no longer need a mirror, you can remove it to free disk space.

Note: VxVM will not allow you to remove the last valid plex associated with a

volume.

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

# vxassist [-g diskgroup] remove mirror volume

You can also use storage attributes to specify the storage to be removed. For

example, to remove a mirror on disk mydg01 from volume vol01, enter the

following.

Note: The ! character is a special character in some shells. The following example

shows how to escape it in a bash shell.

# vxassist -g mydg remove mirror vol01 \!mydg01

See “Creating a volume on specific disks” on page 305.

Alternatively, use the following command to dissociate and remove a mirror from

a volume:

357Administering volumes

Removing a mirror