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
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
Larry Rosenman, Sr. System Administrator, CyberRamp Internet Services E-Mail: ler@cyberramp.net, http://www.cyberramp.net Voice: (214) 343-3333/(817) 461-8484 (Metro)/Fax: (214) 343-3727 Tech Support: (214) 340-2020/(817) 226-2020 (Metro) 7AM-Midnight, 7 Days U.S. Mail: 11350 Hillguard Rd, Dallas, TX 75243-8311
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).
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
-- Larry Rosenman, Sr. System Administrator, CyberRamp Internet Services E-Mail: ler@cyberramp.net, http://www.cyberramp.net Voice: (214) 343-3333/(817) 461-8484 (Metro)/Fax: (214) 343-3727 Technical Support: (214) 340-2020/(817) 226-2020 (Metro) U.S. Mail: 11350 Hillguard Rd, Dallas, TX 75243-8311
-----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).
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