3-12 Dell PowerVault 720N, 740N, and 760N System Administrator and Command Reference Guide
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spare disks available.
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After you create a new volume on a CIFS filer, you must create shares that refer to the
new volume to enable clients to access it.
After you create a new volume on an NFS filer, you must
1. Update the system /etc/exports file.
2. Run exportfs.
3. Add the appropriate mount point information to the /etc/fstab or /etc/vfstab file
on clients that mount volumes from the filer.
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where

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is the name of the volume and
n
is the number of disks to be added.
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To determine volume status, such as size, options, disk assignments, and so on, enter
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After you use the SnapMirror feature to mirror data to a mirror, you can convert the
mirror into a regular volume so that clients can write data to the volume. Enter the fol-
lowing command syntax to convert a mirror to a regular volume:
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