Removing slices from an ia64 disk

[Craig A. Sharp]

I have a couple of disks that were used as the boot disks on an IA64 system. Now we want to re-purpose the disks and I want to remove the slices. I have tried idisk -R /dev/rdsk/cXtXdX with no luck. The slices still exist.

How do I remove the slices? pvcreate and dd do not work either.

Thanks.

Craig

[Ivan Krastev]

After removing slices with -R remove also special files with rmsf.

regards,
ivan

[Fabio Ettore · Accepted solution]

Hi Craig,

pvcreate -f /dev/rdsk/cXtXdX
rmsf -H
(hw path of that disk as seen from ioscan -fnCdisk)
ioscan -fnCdisk
insf -e -H
ioscan -fnCdisk

HTH.

Best regards,
Fabio

[Craig A. Sharp]

Thanks for the help. The suggestions were right on target. I have successfully removed the slices.

Have a great day!