#Moving Disks Out of an Aggregate

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summer surge
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We have a few shelves we would like to remove from our cluster. A few of the disks are owned by an aggregate we are keeping. I have gracefully failed the drives so they rebuild with spares from a shelf we are keeping. The drives are in a broken state and I would like to remove ownership from them but the system wants me to make them spares first. I'm getting the below error when attempting to make them spares (to later remove ownership) and I think it's safe but it has me a little worried. Is it okay to say yes?

netapp::*> disk unfail -disk 3.33.0 -spare true

Warning: Failed disk "3.33.0" might have aggregate labels and file system data present. Releasing this disk as a spare disk will lead to permanent loss of file system data that might be on this disk, and it might prevent recovery of a failed aggregate. Are you sure you want to continue with disk unfail?
{y|n}:

jagged wasp
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Do you have the old system? The disk had to have ownership removed for the labels to be correct.

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If you have swapped with spares and the disks are currently spares, there is no reason you can't remove ownership.

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Should be... maybe wait for someone else to comment.

grave viper
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Should have used disk replace instead of fail. The disk would be converted to a spare at the end

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I think worst case is ONTAP sees the disk and knows it used to belong to an aggregate but is invalid in the label. Give it a try in one

summer surge