topic Re: Unable to increase size!! in ONTAP Discussions

Unable to increase size!!

PPATTNAIK — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:53:06 GMT

I am unable to increase size of a filer. It's throwing an alert

'Volume has the fixed filesystem size option set '..

Re: Unable to increase size!!

scottgelb — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:15:16 GMT

The volume was most likely a snapmirror target and was broken. "vol options volname fs_size fixed off" to turn it off... the option will right size a target to match the source and would cause this when left on.

Unable to increase size!!

PPATTNAIK — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:21:27 GMT

Hey Scott. Thanks for the reply.. works like a charm.

Re: Unable to increase size!!

lordgrantis — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 16:29:00 GMT

Thanks Scott. Helped me out too.

Re: Unable to increase size!!

scarranza — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 01:19:08 GMT

Thank you! this worked great.

Re: Unable to increase size!!

Nate1202 — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 15:24:17 GMT

For Cluster Ontap (9.3), the command is 'modify', not 'option'.

vol modify -volume /vol/vol_name -filesys-size-fixed false -vserver vserver_name

Re: Unable to increase size!!

vofcdp — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 09:50:47 GMT

Dear Scott,

Thank you very much it was very helpful and saved my time.

Re: Unable to increase size!!

weiliu — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 07:02:12 GMT

This is because the volume has a fixed file system size option set. You need to disable it to expand the volume
volume modify -vserver svm_name -volume vol_name -filesys-size-fixed false