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Disk Unpartition Fails Due To Inconsistent Storage Pool

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Applies to

  • Ontap 9
  • FAS/ AFF

Issue

  • Drives are repurposed from a retired system
  • There are disk partitions that have the retired nodes listed as their owner
  • Attempting to remove disk ownership fails with
    Error: command failed: Failed to remove the owner of disk "x.x.x". Reason: Cannot remove owner of disk "x.x.x" because it is shared
  • Reassign disk in node shell
    ::> run -node <nodename> 
    ::> disk remove_ownership <disk name including partition>
    ::> disk assign <disk name>
  • Disk unpartition was reattempted and an error for inconsistent storage pool was seen
    ::> storage disk unpartition -disk <disk name>
    Error: command failed: Failed to update the configuration for storage pool"". Because of this, the storage pool's configuration is in an inconsistent state

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