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[NETAPP] How to increase FlexVol Volume size

To increase the FlexVol size, follow below procedures:
1. First List the available space on the Flex volume to be increased:

fas01> df -m vol2

Filesystem total used avail capacity Mounted on

/vol/vol2/ 40MB 0MB 39MB 0% /vol/vol2/

/vol/vol2/.snapshot 10MB 0MB 9MB 0% /vol/vol2/.snapshot

fas01>

2. Next increase the size of that volume from 50 MB up to 100 MB. To do this we will add 50 MB to the volume with the vol size command.

fas01> vol size vol2 +50m

vol size: Flexible volume 'vol2' size set to 100m.

fas01> vol status vol2

Volume State Status Options

vol2 online raid4, flex create_ucode=on,

convert_ucode=on

Containing aggregate: 'aggr2'