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Dara_McHugh
10 years ago

Best practice for resizing VXVM volumes?

Hi, What's the recommended practice for resizing a VXVM volume and filesystem? Thanks!
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    mikebounds
    10 years ago

    Use "vxasisst maxgrow" to see how much space is available and add extra disks to diskgroup using "vxdg adddisk" if there is not enough space.  Then use "vxresize" which resizes both volume and fileystem.  Example:

    vxassist -g testdg maxgrow vol1

    vxresize -g testdg vol1 +50g

    Mike

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mikebounds
Level 6
10 years ago

Use "vxasisst maxgrow" to see how much space is available and add extra disks to diskgroup using "vxdg adddisk" if there is not enough space.  Then use "vxresize" which resizes both volume and fileystem.  Example:

vxassist -g testdg maxgrow vol1

vxresize -g testdg vol1 +50g

Mike