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Changing the root volume

About changing the root volume  Top

You can move a filer root volume to another filer, or move the data in a root volume and use the disks as spares. But every filer must have a root volume; therefore, you must designate another volume to be the new root volume.

Changing the root volume of a filer  Top

To change the root volume of a filer, complete the following steps.

Step

Action
1

Create the new root volume using the vol create command.
2

Move the /etc directory from the current root volume to the new root volume.
3

Enter the following command:

vol options vol-name root

vol-name is the name of the new root volume.
4

Enter the following command to reboot the filer:

reboot

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