First bring the disk out of the volume group, and clear the PVID:
[root@aix01]/root# lspv hdisk3 000e583a618a3ca8 testvg active [root@aix01]/root# reducevg testvg hdisk3 [root@aix01]/root# chpv -C hdisk3
Format the disk, it will put 0 on each block:
[root@aix01]/root# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdisk3 bs=1024k count=$(bootinfo -s hdisk3)
Cleanup alternate disk
# alt_rootvg_op -X old_rootvg #remove the old vios installation # chdev -l hdisk1 -a pv=clear # wipe out the PVID # chpv -c hdisk1 #remove boot record # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdisk1 bs=4092 count=12800 #erase hdisk1