How to drop the ASM disk group?

In this article, I’m going to show you how to drop the ASM disk group. In my previous post, we discussed how to add a new disk and create a new disk group in ASM.

Drop ASM Disk Group

Firstly we need to dismount the disk group from ASM instance, using following query.

SQL> ALTER DISKGROUP TEST DISMOUNT;

After dismounted the disk group, now we can drop it directly using following command.

SQL> DROP DISKGROUP TEST;

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