Can You Reduce A Fs In Vxvm? What Is The Risk Involved?

1.	Can You Reduce A Fs In Vxvm? What Is The Risk Involved?
Answer» There are a few risks and issues involved while reducing a FILESYSTEM in VxVM. UFS volumes cannot be SHRUNK, only grow operation is permitted. VxFS volumes must be MOUNTED for grow and shrink operation; if it is unmounted no operation can be performed You cannot resize a volume that contains plexes with different LAYOUT types (e.g concat and stripe). Attempting to do so results in the following error message: VxVM vxresize ERROR V-5-1-2536 Volume has different Organization in each mirror To resize such a volume successfully, you must FIRST reconfigure it so that each data plex has the same layout type. There are a few risks and issues involved while reducing a Filesystem in VxVM. VxVM vxresize ERROR V-5-1-2536 Volume has different Organization in each mirror To resize such a volume successfully, you must first reconfigure it so that each data plex has the same layout type.

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There are a few risks and issues involved while reducing a FILESYSTEM in VxVM.

UFS volumes cannot be SHRUNK, only grow operation is permitted.
VxFS volumes must be MOUNTED for grow and shrink operation; if it is unmounted no operation can be performed
You cannot resize a volume that contains plexes with different LAYOUT types (e.g concat and stripe). Attempting to do so results in the following error message:

VxVM vxresize ERROR V-5-1-2536 Volume has different

Organization in each mirror

To resize such a volume successfully, you must FIRST reconfigure it so that each data plex has the same layout type.

There are a few risks and issues involved while reducing a Filesystem in VxVM.

VxVM vxresize ERROR V-5-1-2536 Volume has different

Organization in each mirror

To resize such a volume successfully, you must first reconfigure it so that each data plex has the same layout type.

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