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CDOT Namespace /vol

zimmerm — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 19:03:58 GMT

How do I get my original "vol" namespace back on a new CDOT Server. I did not use the 7MTT tool to build the new Server (Ontap v8.3).

I want to mount my original volumes back under: /vol So if I can not mount up root any longer and then perform a "mkdir vol"..... then how do I get this top level namespace "vol" back, without creating a dummy volume....? Thanks!

Re: CDOT Namespace /vol

zimmerm — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 19:00:14 GMT

OK.... think I got it....

Mounted it up C$ on a Windows Server and then created the Folder "vol".

Then added a Volume to the new namespace "vol" and built out a share to access the volume.

This seems to work.

Thanks!

Re: CDOT Namespace /vol

SeanHatfield — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 19:02:02 GMT

If you don't want to make a vol volume to build out the namespace you can either mount the SVM root from a client and create the /vol folder, or you can create it using powershell with New-NcDirectory.

Re: CDOT Namespace /vol

parisi — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:12:18 GMT

Yes, this is one approach. Other approaches include:

- creating a volume called "vol" and mounting it to /vol in the cluster

- creating a qtree in t he vsroot volume named vol