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Recently I had a task to replace disk in veritas, I had 72gb FC drive and I needed to replace it with 146gb FC drive to gain some additional space in my V880 server. Server has 6 internal disks. I cannot just pull disk out of V880, I have to use luxadm to offline it.

First step is to identify the Enclosure in your V880 server, to accomplish this task I need to run luxadm probe

# luxadm probe

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[11:53:56] @carlton: /var/vx/isis > cat command.log
Description: Calculate Maximum Volume Size
Date: Tue Sep  2 14:51:40 2003
Command: /usr/sbin/vxassist   -g nfsdg -p maxsize
layout=stripe-mirror,log  nmirror=2  stripeunit=128  ncolumn=2  init=zero
Output: 352747520
Exit Code: 0

Description: Calculate Maximum Volume Size
Date: Tue Sep  2 15:01:42 2003
Command: /usr/sbin/vxassist   -g nfsdg -p maxsize
layout=stripe-mirror,log  nmirror=2  stripeunit=128  ncolumn=11  init=zero
mirror=ctrl
Output: 387977216
Exit Code: 0

Description: Create Volume
Date: Wed Sep  3 08:17:33 2003
Command: /usr/sbin/vxassist   -g nfsdg  make vol01 387977216s
layout=stripe-mirror,log  nmirror=2  stripeunit=128  ncolumn=11  init=zero
comment=”main stripe-pro partition” mirror=ctrl
Output:
Exit Code: 0

Description: File System Create
Date: Wed Sep  3 08:17:37 2003
Command: /usr/sbin/mkfs -F vxfs -o bsize=1024,largefiles
/dev/vx/rdsk/nfsdg/vol01 387977216  < /var/tmp/aaa00KN0F
Output:     version 5 layout
:     387977216 sectors, 193988608 blocks of size 1024, log size
16384 blocks
:     unlimited inodes, largefiles supported
:     193988608 data blocks, 193923312 free data blocks
:     5921 allocation units of 32768 blocks, 32768 data blocks
:     last allocation unit has 2048 data blocks
Exit Code: 0

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