Originally posted by: manu12

Hi,

I want to remove completely hard disk hdisk1, so i have run the command rmdev -dl hdisk1,

After running this command whenever I am giving command lspv it is showing single hard disk as hdisk0.

But after running cfgmgr command it is showing again 2 Hard drives as hdisk0 and hdisk1.

Can Any one tell me in this regards that how to delete that hard disk permanently?

Regards,

Manoj

Originally posted by: orphy

Assuming that this is a "simple" machine, you'd need to physically remove the hard drive from the box in order not to have cfgmgr find it.
Orphy

Originally posted by: manu12

Thanks Orphy for quick respnse, But one thing I want to confirm that the hard disk which i want to remove was part of testvg(Example) so i have removed the vg and lv both.

So if i am removing hard disk manually wheather it impact on my OS after rebooting(Wheather os will send me the error)

Regards,

Manoj

Originally posted by: orphy

As long as hdisk1 is not part of rootvg and that you don't need it (i.e. no more LV/FS in it), you can physically remove it from the server. These steps should work for you:

umount
rmfs or rmlv
varyoffvg
exportvg
physically remove hdisk1

You will need to shutdown the server before the phy. remove unless hdisk1 is hot-swappable.
Orphy

Originally posted by: manu12

Thanks,

Regards,

Manoj

Originally posted by: orphy

I missed that you said hdisk1 is "part of testvg" so don't do the varyoffvg and exportvg. These steps would work better for you.

umount
rmfs/rmlv
lspv -l hdisk1 (to make sure nothing else is in hdisk1)
reducevg testvg hdisk1
rmdev -dl hdisk1
remove hdisk1 physically (may need shutdown first)

After you reboot, AIX will not know anything about hdisk1. Hope this helps!
Orphy