How to clear the failing flag on a veritas volume manager disk:

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How to clear the failing flag on a veritas volume manager disk:..

Answer / sbrahman75

Use the vxdisk list command to find out which disks are failing:

# vxdisk list

DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS

c1t1d0s2 auto:sliced mydg01 mydg online

c1t2d0s2 auto:sliced mydg02 mydg online failing

c1t3d0s2 auto:sliced mydg03 mydg online

# vxedit set failing=off mydg02

# vxdisk list

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How to clear the failing flag on a veritas volume manager disk:..

Answer / kesava

vxedit -g mydg set failing=off mydg02

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How to clear the failing flag on a veritas volume manager disk:..

Answer / kannan

vxedit -g <DGName> set failing=off <Volumename>

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