VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Storage Administrator Administrator's Guide

Volume Tasks

Changing a Volume’s Layout

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Layout: Choose the new volume layout:

• Concatenated

Change the volume to a simple, concatenated volume.

• Striped

Change the volume to a striped volume.

• RAID-5

Change the volume to a RAID-5 volume.

• Concatenated Pro

Change the volume to a layered concatenated

volume.

• Striped Pro

Change the volume to a layered striped volume.

For a striped, RAID-5, or striped pro volume, provide the

following information:

• In the Number of Columns ﬁeld, specify the number

of columns (disks) across which the volume should be

striped.

• To specify a stripe unit size other than the default,

type the stripe unit size in the Stripe Unit Size ﬁeld.

To specify a size unit, attach an s (sectors), k

(kilobytes), m (megabytes), or g (gigabytes) to the size.