How to Remove a Soft Partition

1. Read the Background Information About Soft Partitions.

2. Use one of the following methods to delete a soft partition:

   • From the Enhanced Storage tool within the Solaris Management Console, open the Volumes node. Choose the soft partition that you want to expand, then choose Action->Properties, then follow the instructions on screen. For more information, see the online help.

   • To delete a soft partition, use one of the following forms of the metaclear command:

     metaclear [-s disk-set] component metaclear [-s disk-set] -r soft-partition metaclear [-s disk-set] -p component

     where:

     • disk-set is the disk set in which the soft partition exists.

     • soft-partition is the soft partition to delete.

     • r specifies to recursively delete logical volumes, but not volumes on which others depend.

     • p specifies to purge all soft partitions on the specified component, except those soft partitions that are open.

     • component is the component from which to clear all of the soft partitions.

Example—Removing a Soft Partition

This example shows how to delete all soft partitions on c1t4d2s0.

# metaclear -p c1t4d2s0