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June 9th, 2010 02:00

file system resize

Hi All

I have celera nsg2 

on same using 2 file system (FC pool 4.2 TB)

1 is of 2.9 TB on same data size is 1 TB only (using thin provision enabled)

Can i resize it to 1.5 TB without loosing my data

please help if any buddy have done before

  • sri1381

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    Posted June 9th, 2010 03:00

    did u get my query ?

    from my existing fs size 2.9 TB i want to resize it to 1.5 (in same data is of 1TB )

    so that i will get free sapce of 1.4TB

    (i dont want to loose my data at all)

    Thanks For your reply

  • Rainer_EMC

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    Posted June 9th, 2010 03:00

    sure - no problem

    just go into the GUI, right-click the fs and select properties and change the max size for a VP fs

    for a non-VP fs just select the extend fs option

    without data loss or interruption

    Rainer

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    Posted June 9th, 2010 04:00

    Hi,

         I would agree with Peter .we will not be able to shrink an existing file system. The only option, at this time, is to create a new smaller file system of the desired size, and migrate the data from the larger file system to the new smaller file system. Once the migration is completed, the original file system can safely be deleted freeing up the space

    Please refer Prims solution emc173981 for details


    Thanks

    Vanitha

  • Peter_EMC

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    Posted June 9th, 2010 04:00

    Not sure about the question, but there is no shrink functionality of a fs.

    If your fs is already 2.9 TB and you want to shrink it, you need to migrate your data to a smaller FS.

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    Posted June 9th, 2010 09:00

    sri1381 schrieb:

    did u get my query ?

    from my existing fs size 2.9 TB i want to resize it to 1.5 (in same data is of 1TB )

    so that i will get free sapce of 1.4TB

    (i dont want to loose my data at all)

    Thanks For your reply

    Hi,

    if I understood you correctly you have a virtually provisioned file system with a max size of 2.9TB and only 1TB of it is used.

    It now depends on what the current size of the file system is - just go Celerra Manager and right-click to look at the properties

    what do the fields "Storage Capacity" and "Maximum Capacity" say ?

    Rainer