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

Chapter 2, Administering Disks
Removing and Replacing Disks
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3. The vxdiskadm program displays the device names of the disk devices available for
use as replacement disks. Your system may use a device name that differs from the
examples. Enter the device name of the disk or press Return to select the default
device:
The following devices are available as replacements:
c0t1d0 c1t1d0
You can choose one of these disks to replace disk02.
Choose "none" to initialize another disk to replace disk02.
Choose a device, or select "none"
[<device>,none,q,?] (default: c0t1d0)
4. If the disk has not previouslybeen initialized,press Return atthe followingprompt to
replace the disk:
The requested operation is to initialize disk device
c0t1d0 and to then use that device to replace the removed or failed
disk disk02 in disk group rootdg.
Continue with operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)
If the disk has already been initialized, press Return at the following prompt to
replace the disk:
The requested operation is to use the initialized device
c0t1d0 to replace the removed or failed disk disk02 in disk group
rootdg.
Continue with operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)
5. The vxdiskadm program then proceedsto replace the disk, andreturns the following
message on success:
Replacement of disk disk02 in group rootdg with disk device
c0t1d0 completed successfully.
At the following prompt, indicate whether you want to replace another disk (y) or
return to the vxdiskadm main menu (n):
Replace another disk? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)