This is generally not possible. The only disks that can be removed from an aggregate is the dparity disk by changing the RAID type from RAID-DP to RAID-4. And you can only do this if your current RG is not over the max size for RAID-4.

Sorry.

-- Adam Fox NGS Tools Developer adamfox@netapp.com

-----Original Message----- From: Alan Biren [mailto:ABiren@asisystem.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 12:37 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Removing a disk from an aggregate

Does anyone know of a way to permanently remove a disk from one a RAID Group in an Aggregate.

One of my Administrators create an aggregate with raidsize of 14 disks and used all available disks to fill the raid group. There are now no spares in the system. The current aggregate already has a production volume on it so destroying the aggregate is really not an option.

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