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388 Administering hot-relocation
Removing a disk from use as a hot-relocation spare
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Removing a disk from use as a hot-relocation spare
While a disk is designated as a spare, the space on that disk is not used for the
creation of VxVM objects within its disk group. If necessary, you can free a spare
disk for general use by removing it from the pool of hot-relocation disks.
To remove a spare from the hot-relocation pool, use the following command:
# vxedit [-g diskgroup] set spare=off diskname
where diskname is the disk media name.
For example, to make mydg01 available for normal use in the disk group, mydg,
use the following command:
# vxedit -g mydg set spare=off mydg01
To 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 disk media name of a spare disk (such as
mydg01):
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,?] mydg01
The following confirmation is displayed:
VxVM NOTICE V-5-2-143 Disk mydg01 in mydg 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 diskgroup] set nohotuse=on diskname
where diskname is the disk media name.