The root volume

About the root volume

Every filer has a root volume. It is the volume from which the filer reads configuration files. During setup, the filer creates a default volume, named vol0, and designates it as the root volume.

Designating the root volume

If you add volumes to your filer, you choose a volume to be the root volume during the multivolume configuration process.

For more information about designating the multiple volume configuration process, read Chapter 3, "Disk and File System Management,."

About the volume name prefix

Volume names begin with the following prefix:

/vol/

Syntax to refer to the root volume from NFS clients

To refer to the root volume when mounting the root volume to an NFS client, use the following syntax:

/vol/vol0


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