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VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide: for HP-UX 11i and HP-UX 11i Version 1.5 > Chapter 4 Disk Tasks

Disabling a Disk

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You can take a disk offline. If the disk is corrupted, you need to take it offline and remove it. You may be moving the physical disk device to another location to be connected to another system. To take a disk offline, first remove it from its disk group, and then use the following procedure:

  1. Select menu item 10 (Disable (offline) a disk device) from the vxdiskadm main menu.

  2. At the following prompt, enter the address of the disk you want to disable:

    Disable (offline) a disk device
    Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/OfflineDisk
    Use this menu operation to disable all access to a disk device
    by the Volume Manager. This operation can be applied only to
    disks that are not currently in a disk group. Use this operation
    if you intend to remove a disk from a system without rebooting.
    NOTE: Many systems do not support disks that can be removed from
    a system during normal operation. On such systems, the
    offline operation is seldom useful.
    Select a disk device to disable [<address>,list,q,?] c1t1d0

    The vxdiskadm program disables the specified disk.

  3. At the following prompt, indicate whether you want to disable another device (y) or return to the vxdiskadm main menu (n):

    Disable another device? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)
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