This is the procedure I followed, and it worked flawlessly.
The mail volume still exists, but will move when filer#2 arrives.
Thanks all for the help!
LER
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-----Original Message----- From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@netapp.com] Sent: Monday, November 02, 1998 3:43 PM To: rollee@netapp.com Cc: ler@cyberramp.net; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Changing which volume is the root volume W/O losing data?
I believe the command "vol options news root" should be all you need. This operation should not cause any data loss.
Note that the new volume does *not* immediately become the new root volume; that doesn't happen until a reboot.
After it completes copying over the /vol/mail/etc directory to /vol/news/etc, you just need to do a "vol destroy mail" to convert all of mail's disks into spares, and then do a "vol add news <# of spares you want to add>".
The steps should be:
1) copy "/vol/mail/etc" to "/vol/news/etc";
2) do "vol options news root";
3) reboot;
4) destroy the "mail" volume;
5) add the now-spare disks to the "news" volume (leaving, as noted, spares as desired).