Creating a volume that uses a specified language

Description

This procedure creates a volume with a specified language. You use this procedure when you are creating a volume but want to use a language different from the language of the root volume, which is the default language. You use this procedure any time you want to create a volume.

After you complete the procedure, the filer stores file names in the volume you created using a character set that best fits the language you selected.

Prerequisites

To complete this procedure, you need the language code of the language you want to use. You can get the language code from the table in "Languages supported."

Caution

Changing the language of a volume after the volume contains files can cause some of the NFS encodings to be invalid and is not recommended.

Step

To set the language and character set that a volume uses to store file names, complete the following step.


Step	Action
1	Enter the following command: vol create volume -l langcode volume is the name of the volume whose language you want to change. langcode is the code for the language you want the volume to use.

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