Chapter 3

Data Organization Using Volumes and Qtrees

About this chapter  

This chapter describes how to use volumes and qtrees to manage user data. Read this chapter if you plan to organize user data into large units (volumes) for reliability, or smaller units (qtrees) for flexibility.

Topics in this chapter  

This chapter discusses the following topics:

• Understanding data management
• Creating volumes
• Choosing a language for a volume
• Changing the state of a volume
• Physically moving volumes
• Renaming volumes
• Changing the root volume
• Destroying volumes
• SnapLock storage solution
• Displaying qtree status
• Making a directory into a qtree or a qtree into a directory
• Deleting qtrees
• Increasing the maximum number of files in a volume
• Setting space reservation for files

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