VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Administrator's Guide (September 2002)

Excluding a Disk from Hot-Relocation Use

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Alternatively, you can use vxdiskadm to remove a disk from the hot-relocation pool:

1. Select menu item 12 (Turn off the spare flag on a disk) from the

vxdiskadm main menu.

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.

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)

Excluding a Disk from Hot-Relocation Use

To exclude a disk from hot-relocation use, use the following command:

# vxedit -g disk_group set nohotuse=on diskname

Alternatively, using vxdiskadm:

1. Select menu item 15 (Exclude a disk from hot-relocation use) from the

vxdiskadm main menu.

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

Exclude a disk from hot-relocation use

Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/UnmarkSpareDisk

Use this operation to exclude a disk 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,?] disk01