We've accidentally added our spare disk to a volume. Our OEM says that this is irrevokable, and that we'll have to copy the volume to another disk tray, rebuild the volume and copy back in order to fix this. Is that true? Is there no way to shrink a filesystem and remove a disk once it's been added?
It seem contrary to the ultra-flexible spirit of the Filers....
As I understand it your OEM is right. Once a disk is added to a volume it cannot be removed. You indeed must create a new volume, copy the data to the new volume, and then blow the old one away.
Good luck, Derek Kelly Genomecorp
On 8/21/00 at 2:20 PM, ajs@ajs.com (Aaron Sherman) wrote:
We've accidentally added our spare disk to a volume. Our OEM says that this is irrevokable, and that we'll have to copy the volume to another disk tray, rebuild the volume and copy back in order to fix this. Is that true? Is there no way to shrink a filesystem and remove a disk once it's been added?
It seem contrary to the ultra-flexible spirit of the Filers....
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