How to Remove a Hot Spare From a Hot Spare Pool (Command Line)

After checking the prerequisites ("Prerequisites for Removing DiskSuite Objects") and the preliminary information ("Preliminary Information for Removing Hot Spares and Hot Spare Pools"), use the metahs(1M) command to remove the hot spare. Refer to the metahs(1M) man page for more information.

Example -- Removing a Hot Spare From a Hot Spare Pool

# metahs -d hsp003 /dev/dsk/c2t1d0s2
hsp003: Hotspare is deleted

This example removes the hot spare /dev/dsk/c2t1d0s2 from the hot spare pool hsp003.

Example -- Removing a Hot Spare From All Hot Spare Pools

# metahs -d all /dev/dsk/c2t1d0s2
hsp003: Hotspare is deleted
hsp004: Hotspare is deleted
# metahs -i
...
hsp003: 2 hot spares
        c1t3d0s6                Available       912800 blocks
        c0t0d0s4                Available       5600 blocks
 
hsp004: 2 hot spares
        c1t3d0s6                Available       912800 blocks
        c0t0d0s4                Available       5600 blocks

This example removes the hot spare /dev/dsk/c2t1d0s2 from all its associated hot spare pools. The metahs command with the -i option shows that the hot spare slice is no longer part of the hot spare pools from which it was deleted.