114Administering disks

Removing and replacing disks

The following devices are available as replacements: c0t1d0You can choose one of these disks now, to replace mydg02.Select “none” if you do not wish to select a replacement disk.

Choose a device, or select “none” [<device>,none,q,?] (default: c0t1d0)

Note: Do not choose the old disk drive as a replacement even though it appears in the selection list. If necessary, you can choose to initialize a new disk.

If you enter none because you intend to replace the physical disk, see the section “Replacing a failed or removed disk” on page 115.

5If you chose to replace the disk in step 4, press Return at the following prompt to confirm this:

VxVM NOTICE V-5-2-285 Requested operation is to remove mydg02 from group mydg. The removed disk will be replaced with disk device c0t1d0.

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

vxdiskadm displays the following messages to indicate that the original disk is being removed:

VxVM NOTICE V-5-2-265 Removal of disk mydg02 completed successfully.VxVM NOTICE V-5-2-260 Proceeding to replace mydg02 with device c0t1d0.

6You can now choose whether the disk is to be formatted as a CDS disk that is portable between different operating systems, or as a non-portable hpdisk-format disk:

Enter the desired format [cdsdisk,hpdisk,q,?] (default: cdsdisk)

Enter the format that is appropriate for your needs. In most cases, this is the default format, cdsdisk.

7At the following prompt, vxdiskadm asks if you want to use the default private region size of 32768 blocks (32 MB). Press Return to confirm that you want to use the default value, or enter a different value. (The maximum value that you can specify is 524288 blocks.)

Enter desired private region length [<privlen>,q,?] (default: 32768)

8If one of more mirror plexes were moved from the disk, you are now prompted whether FastResync should be used to resynchronize the plexes:

Use FMR for plex resync? [y,n,q,?] (default: n) y vxdiskadm displays the following success message: