I also forgot to mention that it is also snap mirrord -- do I therefore have to re-initialise all the snapmirrored qtrees.

-- Original Message -- Subject: RE: Deleting qtree Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 05:52:18 -0700 From: "Fox, Adam" Adam.Fox@netapp.com To: paul.winchcombe@ukgateway.net

No, that wouldn't do it. Because if you have existing snapshots, those

snapshots would still own blocks of the qtrees you deleted.

Snapshots are at the volume level therefore you have 2 choices:

1) Delete the qtrees and keep lots of snapshot d

ta around until they fall

off naturally.

2) Delete snapshots (probably starting at the oldest) until an your snapshots are chewing up an acceptable amount of space. Worst case, you'd have to delete all of them and start over. If you want to do

hat, you'll need to delete the

snapshots first, then delete the qtrees, then begin snapshots again.

Turning off snapshots doesn't delete existing snapshots, it just stops new ones from being taken.

-- Adam Fox NetApp Professional Services, NC

adamfox@netapp.com

-----Original Message----- From: paul.winchcombe@ukgateway.net [mailto:yxm16@ukgateway.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 4:49 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Deleting qtree

Hi,

Just after any information

f what is the best way to delete a qtree. My

problem is this - I have a volume about 1TB which has 5 qtrees, I want to delete 2 qtrees but keep the snapshots of the 3 remaining.

If I turned snapshot off for the volume before running the delete, t

en

deleted the files would this work ?

Regards

Paul