Hello Brian,

Well first you have to decide which volume to be your new root. (or you may be using a brand new one) ( vol options volname root)

The volumes will come up as "foreign" and named /vol/vol0 and /vol/vol0(2)

Bring them online with "vol online" and change the names with "vol rename"

Anders Ljungberg

-----Original Message----- From: Brian Tao [mailto:taob@risc.org] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 6:12 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Migrating 2 x F740 => F840

On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Brian Tao wrote:

Is it possible to "merge" the disk shelves from two or more F740's

onto a single F840 without losing the data? It sounds like it might be as simple as having to rename volumes (to avoid having multiple /vol/vol0's) when attaching the shelves to the F840. Has anyone tried this? Any requirements or caveats to watch out for?

Here is the document on NOW describing the migration procedure (including kernel and bootblock update) going from an F700 series to an F840:

http://now.netapp.com/Knowledgebase/solutionarea.asp?id=3.0.6869703.2865011

It doesn't specifically cover adding another volume of disks that was once considered to be the /vol/vol0 boot volume on different filer, but I imagine that is easily solved by renaming the volume once it is on the destination filer?