How to view disk zeroing status of a partitioned disk in ONTAP
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Applies to
ONTAP 9
Description
- This article describes the procedure to check disk zeroing status of a partitioned disk.
- Zeroing a disk writes zeros to the entire disk and must be done before a disk can be reused in another aggregate.
- The
storage disk zero spares
command zeroes out all non-zeroed RAID spare disks. - The command runs in the background and can take much time to complete, possibly hours, depending on the number of disks to be zeroed and the capacity of each disk.
- Having zeroed spare disks available helps avoid delay in creating or extending an aggregate.
- Spare disks that are in the process of zeroing are still eligible for use as creation, extension, or reconstruct disks.