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115Administering disks
Removing and replacing disks
VxVM NOTICE V-5-2-158 Disk replacement completed successfully.
9 At the following prompt, indicate whether you want to remove another disk
(y) or return to the vxdiskadm main menu (n):
Remove another disk? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)
Note: If removing a disk causes one or more volumes to be disabled, see the
section, “Restarting a Disabled Volume” in the chapter “Recovery from
Hardware Failure” in the Veritas Volume Manager Troubleshooting Guide, for
information on how to restart a disabled volume so that you can restore its data
from a backup.
If you wish to move hot-relocate subdisks back to a replacement disk, see
“Configuring hot-relocation to use only spare disks” on page 390.
Replacing a failed or removed disk
Note: You may need to run commands that are specific to the operating system
or disk array when replacing a physical disk.
To specify a disk that has replaced a failed or removed disk
1 Select menu item 4 (Replace a failed or removed disk) from the
vxdiskadm main menu.
2 At the following prompt, enter the name of the disk to be replaced (or enter
list for a list of disks):
Replace a failed or removed disk
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/ReplaceDisk
VxVM INFO V-5-2-479 Use this menu operation to specify a
replacement disk for a disk that you removed with the “Remove
a disk for replacement” menu operation, or that failed during
use. You will be prompted for a disk name to replace and a disk
device to use as a replacement.
You can choose an uninitialized disk, in which case the disk
will be initialized, or you can choose a disk that you have
already initialized using the Add or initialize a disk menu
operation.
Select a removed or failed disk [<disk>,list,q,?] mydg02
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: