Difference between vxassist maxgrow/maxsize

[Rajan_Iyer]

Hi, I would like understand the difference between diff between below commands.

vxassist -g diskg1 maxgrow vol1

vxassist -g diskg1 maxsize

In my case 1st command shows 135 GB & 2 nd command shows 23 GB.

Please let me know what it means ?

Thanks

Rajan

[Gaurav_S · Accepted solution]

Hello Rajan,

maxgrow indicates how much a volume can be grown .. i.e vol01 ...so vol01 (existing size + new size) can be grown to max 135G

however maxsize shows about the diskgroup on how much size a new volume can be created .. so if u create a new volume, you can create it for 23G

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[Gaurav_S]

Also from the man pages

maxgrow	Reports the maximum size a volume can grow given its attributes and given the free storage available.
maxsize	Reports the maximum size a volume could be created with given the attributes specified and given the free storage available.

https://sort.symantec.com/public/documents/sfha/5.1sp1/solaris/manualpages/html/man/volume_manager/html/man1m/vxassist.1m.html

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