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Recreate a Dynamic Volume

Occasionally you may want to recreate a dynamic volume. For example,

you might want to implement striping on a concatenated volume or, if a

striped dynamic volume has been extended, you might want to recreate

the volume to place all of the subdevices in the same stripe set.

When a dynamic volume is recreated, the Matrix Volume Manager first

destroys the volume and then creates it again using the subdevices and

options that you select. When the volume is destroyed, any filesystem on

that volume is also removed. Before recreating a volume, be sure that the

filesystem is no longer needed or has been copied or backed up to

another location. The filesystem must be unmounted when you recreate

the volume.

To recreate a dynamic volume on the PolyServe Management Console,

select Storage > Dynamic Volume > Recreate and then choose the volume

that you want to recreate.

If a filesystem is mounted on the volume, the Recreate Dynamic Volume

window shows information for both the dynamic volume and the

filesystem.