AIX Storage Management

can be carried out on it. Whatever the reason, physical volumes can be

removed using the

reducevg command.

In the following example, physical volume

hdisk3 is removed from the volume

group

myvg:

 

# reducevg myvg hdisk3

 

The reducevg command will only succeed in removing a physical volume if:

•

No logical volumes exist on the physical volume being removed.

•

The volume group is varied on.

The

reducevg command provides the -d and -f flags. The -d flag is useful since

it deallocates all logical partitions and deletes all logical volumes from the

specified physical volume upon user confirmation. The

-f flag used in

conjunction with the

-d flag will force ...