General volume operations

About general volume operations  

General volume operations apply to both traditional volumes and FlexVol volumes.

General volume operations described in this section include:

• Migrating between traditional volumes and FlexVol volumes
• Managing duplicate volume names
• Managing volume languages
• Determining volume status and state
• Renaming volumes
• Destroying volumes
• Increasing the maximum number of files in a volume
• Reallocating file and volume layout

Additional general volume operations that are described in other chapters or other guides include:

• Making a volume available

  For more information on making volumes available to users who are attempting access through NFS, CIFS, FTP, WebDAV, or HTTP protocols, see the File Access and Protocols Management Guide.

• Copying volumes

  For more information about copying volumes see the Data Protection Online Backup and Recovery Guide.

• Changing the root volume

  For more information about changing the root volume from one volume to another, see the section on the root volume in the System Administration Guide.

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