General volume operations
General volume operations are operations you can perform on either a FlexVol volume or a traditional volume. They include managing a volume's language, viewing or changing its state, renaming or destroying it, increasing the number of files it can contain, and running a reallocation operation on it.
- Migrating from traditional volumes to FlexVol volumes
You cannot convert directly from a traditional volume to a FlexVol volume. You must create a new FlexVol volume and then move the data to the new volume.
- Putting a volume into restricted state
You use the vol restrict command to put a volume into restricted state, which makes it unavailable for read or write access by clients. You might want to do this if you want the volume to be the target of a volume copy or SnapMirror replication operation.
- Taking a volume offline
You use the vol offline command to take a volume offline to perform maintenance on the volume, move it, or destroy it. When a volume is offline, it is unavailable for read or write access by clients.
- Bringing a volume online
After you restrict a volume or take it offline, you can make it available to the storage system again by bringing it online using the vol online command.
- Renaming a volume
You use the vol rename command to rename a volume. You can rename volumes without interrupting data service.
- Destroying a volume
If you no longer need a volume and the data it contains, you can destroy the volume to free up its space for other data.
- Increasing the maximum number of files allowed on a volume
Volumes have a limit on the number of files they can contain. You can increase this limit using the maxfiles command, but you cannot decrease it once you have increased it.
- Changing the language for a volume
Use caution when changing the language for an existing volume, because doing so could affect the system's ability to display your data. In addition, a system reboot is necessary before the language change is complete.
