topic Re: Downsizing a volume in Data Protection https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Downsizing-a-volume/m-p/58730#M10147 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Yes.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:20:30 GMT misra 2009-12-08T19:20:30Z Downsizing a volume https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Downsizing-a-volume/m-p/58709#M10142 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Can I lower the size of a volume without affecting the qtrees that reside in it? I would just create another volume of the proper size but I wouldn't be able to do a vol copy.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:20:43 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Downsizing-a-volume/m-p/58709#M10142 inthiam12 2025-06-05T07:20:43Z Re: Downsizing a volume https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Downsizing-a-volume/m-p/58713#M10143 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Sure.&nbsp; You can always lower the size of a flex volume down to the size of the actual data in the volume on the fly, no disruption.&nbsp; That's the beauty of FlexVols.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:02:57 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Downsizing-a-volume/m-p/58713#M10143 adamfox 2009-12-08T17:02:57Z Re: Downsizing a volume https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Downsizing-a-volume/m-p/58716#M10144 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks Adam. I see that I can increase a snapdrive with the resize command. How about decreasing the SnapDrive size? I need to resize a snap drive on&nbsp; a volume.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:47:14 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Downsizing-a-volume/m-p/58716#M10144 inthiam12 2009-12-08T18:47:14Z Re: Downsizing a volume https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Downsizing-a-volume/m-p/58720#M10145 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Using SnapDrive you can not downsize a volume.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:03:40 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Downsizing-a-volume/m-p/58720#M10145 misra 2009-12-08T19:03:40Z Re: Downsizing a volume https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Downsizing-a-volume/m-p/58725#M10146 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks...so if I need to take the data off a SnapDrive, create a new snap drive of the appropriate (smaller size), and place the data back on the smaller drive what would you recommend? I may have to just backup the data and restore to the smaller drive using a third party app?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:06:45 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Downsizing-a-volume/m-p/58725#M10146 inthiam12 2009-12-08T19:06:45Z Re: Downsizing a volume https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Downsizing-a-volume/m-p/58730#M10147 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Yes.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:20:30 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Downsizing-a-volume/m-p/58730#M10147 misra 2009-12-08T19:20:30Z Re: Downsizing a volume https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Downsizing-a-volume/m-p/58735#M10148 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You can downsize a disk created through snapdrive on a windows 2008 system. You have this option available from SDW 6.1 onwards.</P><P>Just select the resize option from SDW for any disk and you can see the maximum and minimum sizes allowed to resize the disk.</P><P>If you select any size smaller than the original size, the disk gets shrinked (downsized).</P><P></P><P>However the above holds good only for windows 2008.</P><P>If you want to achieve the same on windows 2003, you cannot do it through SDW. You might have to create a disk of smaller size and copy the original data back to it.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:06:07 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Downsizing-a-volume/m-p/58735#M10148 ctina 2009-12-09T06:06:07Z Re: Downsizing a volume https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Downsizing-a-volume/m-p/58745#M10149 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks ctina,</P><P></P><P>Unfortunately we are using SDW 5.0. You can only decrease the Snap in v. 6.0 or greater.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:16:40 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Downsizing-a-volume/m-p/58745#M10149 inthiam12 2009-12-09T16:16:40Z