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Removing a disk with no subdisks

 To remove a disk that contains no subdisks from its disk group

• Run the vxdiskadm program and select item 3 (Remove a disk) from the main menu, and respond to the prompts as shown in this example to remove mydg02:

  Enter disk name [<disk>,list,q,?] mydg02

  VxVM NOTICE V-5-2-284 Requested operation is to remove disk mydg02 from group mydg.

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

  VxVM INFO V-5-2-268 Removal of disk mydg02 is complete.

  Clobber disk headers? [y,n,q,?] (default: n) y

  Enter y to remove the disk completely from VxVM control. If you do not want to remove the disk completely from VxVM control, enter n.