VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

Administering Volumes

Resizing a Volume

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vxvm:vxresize: ERROR: Volume volume has different organization in

each mirror

For more information about the vxresize command, see the vxresize(1M)

manual page.

Resizing Volumes using vxassist

The following modiﬁers are used with the vxassist command to resize a

volume:

• growto—increase volume to a speciﬁed length

• growby—increase volume by a speciﬁed amount

• shrinkto—reduce volume to a speciﬁed length

• shrinkby—reduce volume by a speciﬁed amount

Extending to a Given Length

To extend a volume to a speciﬁc length, use the following command:

# vxassist [-b] growto volume length

NOTE If speciﬁed, the -b option makes growing the volume a background task.

For example, to extend volcat to 2000 sectors, use the following

command:

# vxassist growto volcat 2000

NOTE If you previously performed a relayout on the volume, additionally

specify the attribute layout=nodiskalign to the growto command if you

want the subdisks to be grown using contiguous disk space.

Extending by a Given Length

To extend a volume by a speciﬁc length, use the following command:

# vxassist [-b] growby volume length