I think you need to use vmchange:

Change volume expiration date
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmchange [-h volume_database_host] -exp date
-m media_id

or you might use vmdelete, and then treat them as new media.

William D L Brown

veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu wrote on 26/01/2005 16:38:37:

> Comrades,
> 
.
. They show up in the
> Media Manager display and I try to delete them as the first step towards
> recycling, but I can't because they are "assigned". So them I try to
> deassign them with the shell command
> 
>       bpexpdate  -d 0  -ev <barcode>
> 
> But I get a message that says
> 
>       requested media id was not found in NB media database and/or MM
> volume database
> 
> Yet they DO show up in the MM display. 
.
.
> 
> Jeff Dykzeul
> Raytheon Space & Airborne Systems
> 
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