VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 User's Guide - VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (June 2002)

Renaming a Volume
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3. Complete the Resize Volume wizard as follows:
Renaming a Volume
The Rename Volume procedure changes the name of a volume. If the volume has a file
system, this procedure also makes the necessary changes to the file system table file and
allows you to specify a new mount point for the file system.
New Size: Specify one of the following:
- To increase the volume size by a specific amount of space, use
theAddByfield tospecify howmuch spaceshouldbeadded to
the volume.
- To decrease the volume size by a specific amount of space, use
the Subtract By field to specify how much space should be
removed from the volume.
- To specify the new volume size, enter the size in the New
Volume Size field.
To determine the largest possible size for the volume, click
Max
Size after choosing options.
Options: To use a specific disk for the additional space, click Manually
assign destination disks, then use the buttons for adding and
removing disks to move the disk or disks you want assigned as a
destination disk to the right pane of the window.
Notes:
- The Resize Volume task requires either the desired size or the amount of space to add
to or subtract from the volume size.
- A volume containing a file system other than VxFS cannot be shrunk.
- Shrinking a volume with an unmounted file system can result in data loss, so a volume
containing an unmounted file system cannot be shrunk.
- When a volume is shrunk, the resulting extra space is returned to the free space pool.
- When the volume size is increased, sufficient disk space must be available. When
increasing the size of a volume, VxVM assigns the necessary new space from available
disks.