Changing the language of a volume

When to change the language of a volume

You change the language of a volume to make it available to users of a language other than the default language. You should do this before any files are created in the volume so that all file names use the same language.

Caution
Changing the language after the volume contains files can cause some NFS encodings to be invalid. The file names are then unreadable and can't be found, making the files inaccessible.

Displaying volume language use

You can display a list of volumes with the language each volume is configured to use. This is useful for the following kinds of decisions:

How to match the language of a volume to the language of clients.
Whether to create a volume to accommodate clients that use a language for which you don't have a volume.
Whether to change the language of a volume (usually from the default language).

To display which language a volume is configured to use, complete the following step.

Step	Action
1	Enter the following command: *vol status [vol-name] -l* vol-name is the name of the volume about which you want information. Leave out vol-name to get information about every volume on the filer. Result Each row of the list displays the name of the volume, the language code, and the language, as shown in the following sample output. Volume Language vol0 ja (Japanese euc-j)

Step

Action

Enter the following command:

vol status [vol-name] -l

vol-name is the name of the volume about which you want information. Leave out vol-name to get information about every volume on the filer.

Result

Each row of the list displays the name of the volume, the language code, and the language, as shown in the following sample output.

Volume Language

vol0   ja (Japanese euc-j)