Re-adding a disk is the same procedure as replacing the disk, except that the same physical disk is used. Normally, a disk that needs to be re-added has been detached. This means that VxVM has detected the disk failure and has ceased to access the disk.
For example, consider a system that has two disks, disk01
and disk02
, which are normally mapped into the system configuration during boot as disks c0t0d0s2
and c0t1d0s2
, respectively. A failure has caused disk01
to become detached. This can be confirmed by listing the disks with the vxdisk
utility with this command:
vxdisk
displays this (example) list:
c0t1d0s2 sliced disk02 bootdg online
- - disk01 bootdg failed was:c0t0d0s2
Note that the disk disk01
has no device associated with it, and has a status of failed
with an indication of the device that it was detached from. It is also possible for the device (such as c0t0d0s2
in the example) not to be listed at all should the disk fail completely.
In some cases, the vxdisk
list
output can differ. For example, if the boot disk has uncorrectable failures associated with the UNIX partition table, a missing root partition cannot be corrected but there are no errors in the Veritas Volume Manager private area. The vxdisk
list
command displays a listing such as this:
c0t0d0s2 sliced disk01 bootdg online
c0t1d0s2 sliced disk02 bootdg online
However, because the error was not correctable, the disk is viewed as failed. In such a case, remove the association between the failing device and its disk name using the vxdiskadm
"Remove a disk for replacement" menu item.
See the vxdiskadm
(1M) manual page.
You can then perform any special procedures to correct the problem, such as reformatting the device.
vxdiskadm
"Replace a failed or removed disk" menu item to replace the disk, and specify the same device as the replacement. For example, you might replace disk01
with the device c0t0d0s2
.
root
and other volumes affected by the disk failure no longer exist on the re-added disk. Run vxunreloc
to move the hot-relocated subdisks back to the newly replaced disk.