2.13 Turn off the spare flag on a disk

This is used to remove a VM Disk From the Hot-Relocation Pool & free hot-relocation spare disks for use as regular volume manager disks While a disk is designated as a spare, the space on that disk is not used as free space for the creation of volume manager objects within its disk group and this option makes this space available.

Select menu item 13 (Turn off the spare flag on a disk) from the vxdiskadm main menu.

Turn off the spare flag on a disk
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 [,list,q,?] disk01

Disk disk01 in rootdg no longer marked as a spare disk.

Turn-off spare flag on another disk? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)

After using the vxdiskadm for configuring disks and diskgroups next step is to configure volumes and then use them for storage operations . The second part of this article discusses this aspect of volume manager .

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