I believe the command "vol options news root" should be all you need. This operation should not cause any data loss. 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>". Don't forget to keep at least one disk for a spare though, as there is no way to shrink a volume after adding disks to it.
Roland Lee NetApp TSE
On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Larry Rosenman-CyberRamp System Administration wrote:
Is it possible on 5.1D14 to change which of 2 volumes is the root volume of a F520-110?
I have a filer that has 14 disks (100GB), and 2 volumes:
30gb Mail 70gb News.
Mail is the current root volume.
I want to make the news volume the root volume, but not lose the data on news.
I then want to destroy mail (it's moving to a new filer), and add it's disks to the news volume.
How would I go about this?
Thanks!
LER
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