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:

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:

Alternatively, you can 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)