I believe the command is /etc/init.d/oracleasm deletedisk <disk name> to clear and drop a disk, then just re-run the createdisk command to re-initialize it. On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Haroon Qureshi <haroon.qureshi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > i need to recreate my database (test database) running 11.2.0.3 on RHEL > 6.4 with ASMLIB. I want to reuse the same LUNS that I had before and > recreate the diskgroups. How can I tell ASM to reuse the same disks? Do I > need to do something to the disks first in order to be able to reuse them? > I do want to clear out the disks as well so that there is nothing on them. > > Thanks in advance, > Haroon > -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'