I see, will try that, thanks.

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:21 PM, William Havey <bbha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No need to reinitialize. It does no damage to reinit an unused disk, though.
>
> vxdisksetup -i <device>
>
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Thomas Graham <lktho...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> we successful remove that disk from volume manager and vxdisk list
>> does not show sdn and sdo.
>>
>> one question after this, if we want to reuse sdn and sdo to build
>> another cluster, should we reinitialize it ? and how to reinitialize
>> it ?
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:04 PM, William Havey <bbha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Thomas,
>> >
>> > I see several issues in the output.
>> > 1) Please send a vxdisk -o alldgs list output so we can see if sdn and
>> > sdo
>> > are associated with a deported disk group.
>> >
>> > 1A) Do a vxdisk list sdn and vxdisk list sdo to see if the disk has the
>> > "hostid" field filled in. If yes, its owned by that host and a
>> > reinitialize
>> > will clear that field.
>> >
>> > 2) There is a disabled disk group, mailstorage. To clear the disabled
>> > flag,
>> > deport and import the disk group.
>> >
>> > 3) A 3 disk, CDS disk group has a name of vxcoorddg. This appears to be
>> > a
>> > coordinator disk group, especially because of the shared flag indicating
>> > SF
>> > CFS is in use.
>> >
>> > So, in answer to your question sdn and sdo appear to be not in a disk
>> > group
>> > so No, vxdisk rmdisk need not be done.
>> >
>> > Bill
>> >
>> > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Thomas Graham <lktho...@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> [r...@server etc]# vxdisk list
>> >> DEVICE       TYPE            DISK         GROUP        STATUS
>> >> sda          auto:none       -            -            online invalid
>> >> sdi          auto:cdsdisk    mailstorage01  mailstorage  online
>> >> dgdisabled shared
>> >> sdj          auto:cdsdisk    sdc          vxcoorddg    online
>> >> sdk          auto:cdsdisk    sdd          vxcoorddg    online
>> >> sdl          auto:cdsdisk    sde          vxcoorddg    online
>> >> sdm          auto:cdsdisk    mailstorage02  mailstorage  online
>> >> dgdisabled shared
>> >> sdn          auto:cdsdisk    snapdisk     snapdg       online
>> >> sdo          auto:cdsdisk    -            -            online
>> >> [r...@app3-server etc]# vxdg destroy snapdg
>> >> VxVM vxdg ERROR V-5-1-586 Disk group snapdg: deport failed: Format
>> >> error in disk private region
>> >> [r...@server etc]# vxdisk list
>> >> DEVICE       TYPE            DISK         GROUP        STATUS
>> >> sda          auto:none       -            -            online invalid
>> >> sdi          auto:cdsdisk    mailstorage01  mailstorage  online
>> >> dgdisabled shared
>> >> sdj          auto:cdsdisk    sdc          vxcoorddg    online
>> >> sdk          auto:cdsdisk    sdd          vxcoorddg    online
>> >> sdl          auto:cdsdisk    sde          vxcoorddg    online
>> >> sdm          auto:cdsdisk    mailstorage02  mailstorage  online
>> >> dgdisabled shared
>> >> sdn          auto:cdsdisk    -            -            online
>> >> sdo          auto:cdsdisk    -            -            online
>> >>
>> >> is it necessary to do vxdisk rmdisk on sdn and sdo? we need to use
>> >> these two LUN from SAN on another non-related CFS cluster and we want
>> >> to move it out from this cluster. Please advice.
>> >> --
>> >> Thomas G Lau
>> >> Tel: 93239670
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Thomas G Lau
>> Tel: 93239670
>
>



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