Disk and File System Management 3-9
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This section provides step-by-step procedures for performing many filer management
tasks from the command line on a filer administration host or client. It is organized
into two main sections:
Disk management tasks
Volume management tasks
Alternatively, you can perform these procedures using the FilerView program, which
has a graphical interface.
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This section contains procedures for managing the filers disks and RAID groups.
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To set the RAID group size of a volume when you create it, enter the command
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where
volume
is the name of the volume and
n
is the number of disks you want in
each RAID group. Every RAID group must contain at least two disks.
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To change the size of a RAID group, enter the command
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where
size
is the number of disks you want in the RAID group.
NOTE: You can only change the size of the last RAID group in a volume. You cannot
change the size of RAID groups after they have been filled.