topic Re: Does anyone know if it is safe to resize a flexVol that is both deduplicated and compressed in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Does-anyone-know-if-it-is-safe-to-resize-a-flexVol-that-is-both-deduplicated-and/m-p/14191#M3283 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I'm not aware of any issues resizing a Flex Vol that is deduped and compressed.&nbsp; This assumes the following:</P><P></P><P>- The Flex Vol is not a Snapmirror or SnapVault Source or destination</P><P>- You are not sizing the volume so small it cannot fit any snapshots you have</P><P></P><P>If you have snapshots, you have to make extra sure you leave enough space to satisfy your snapshot_reserve, fractional_reserve, and lun reservation settings.&nbsp; Even if hte vol is involved in a Snapmirror or SnapVault relationship, you can still resize it, but you have to take care and resize all of it's partner volumes equally.</P><P></P><P>Hope that helps!</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:39:02 GMT bsti 2013-02-06T14:39:02Z Does anyone know if it is safe to resize a flexVol that is both deduplicated and compressed https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Does-anyone-know-if-it-is-safe-to-resize-a-flexVol-that-is-both-deduplicated-and/m-p/14186#M3282 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>It will be my first time dealing with a flexvol that is both deduped and compressed. I want to resize it smaller, is it safe? It contains an iscsi LUN.</P><P></P><P>Thanks,</P><P>md</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:10:56 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Does-anyone-know-if-it-is-safe-to-resize-a-flexVol-that-is-both-deduplicated-and/m-p/14186#M3282 DUANESTRYDER 2025-06-05T06:10:56Z Re: Does anyone know if it is safe to resize a flexVol that is both deduplicated and compressed https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Does-anyone-know-if-it-is-safe-to-resize-a-flexVol-that-is-both-deduplicated-and/m-p/14191#M3283 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I'm not aware of any issues resizing a Flex Vol that is deduped and compressed.&nbsp; This assumes the following:</P><P></P><P>- The Flex Vol is not a Snapmirror or SnapVault Source or destination</P><P>- You are not sizing the volume so small it cannot fit any snapshots you have</P><P></P><P>If you have snapshots, you have to make extra sure you leave enough space to satisfy your snapshot_reserve, fractional_reserve, and lun reservation settings.&nbsp; Even if hte vol is involved in a Snapmirror or SnapVault relationship, you can still resize it, but you have to take care and resize all of it's partner volumes equally.</P><P></P><P>Hope that helps!</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:39:02 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Does-anyone-know-if-it-is-safe-to-resize-a-flexVol-that-is-both-deduplicated-and/m-p/14191#M3283 bsti 2013-02-06T14:39:02Z Re: Does anyone know if it is safe to resize a flexVol that is both deduplicated and compressed https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Does-anyone-know-if-it-is-safe-to-resize-a-flexVol-that-is-both-deduplicated-and/m-p/14195#M3285 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thank you!</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:30:50 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Does-anyone-know-if-it-is-safe-to-resize-a-flexVol-that-is-both-deduplicated-and/m-p/14195#M3285 DUANESTRYDER 2013-02-12T23:30:50Z