VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Administrator's Guide (September 2002)

Resizing a Volume

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Resizing Volumes using vxassist

The following modiﬁers are used with the vxassist command to resize a volume:

◆ growto—increase volume to a speciﬁed length

◆ growby—increase volume by a speciﬁed amount

◆ shrinkto—reduce volume to a speciﬁed length

◆ shrinkby—reduce volume by a speciﬁed amount

Extending to a Given Length

To extend a volume to a speciﬁc length, use the following command:

# vxassist [-b] growto volume length

Note If speciﬁed, the -b option makes growing the volume a background task.

For example, to extend volcat to 2000 sectors, use the following command:

# vxassist growto volcat 2000

Note If you previously performed a relayout on the volume, additionally specify the

attribute layout=nodiskalign to the growto command if you want the

subdisks to be grown using contiguous disk space.

Extending by a Given Length

To extend a volume by a speciﬁc length, use the following command:

# vxassist [-b] growby volume length

Note If speciﬁed, the -b option makes growing the volume a background task.

For example, to extend volcat by 100 sectors, use the following command:

# vxassist growby volcat 100

Note If you previously performed a relayout on the volume, additionally specify the

attribute layout=nodiskalign to the growby command if you want the

subdisks to be grown using contiguous disk space.

Shrinking to a Given Length

To shrink a volume to a speciﬁc length, use the following command: