topic Re: Moving 7-Mode root partition in ONTAP Discussions

Moving 7-Mode root partition

RuleS — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:05:56 GMT

Hi,

The company I support has a HA FAS3250 with unsupported X412 drives which has the root partitions for both controllers using NetApp Release 8.2.5P1 7-Mode. There is a DS2246 shelf with X425 as spares assigned to controller A, which I would like to use as the root partition and then move the volumes so as to remove the shelf of unsupported X412's.

I would like to know if it is possible to move both controllers root partition's to the new shelf and if it can be done non-disruptively.

Has anybody got a procedure for this process please?

Re: Moving 7-Mode root partition

Ontapforrum — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 14:11:33 GMT

I am sure you should be able to do that, last time I remember doing this was about 8 years back. This is /useto be very popular topic. I am sure you can find number for references from the community threads. By utilizing failover/giveback you can do it NDU.

One such:

Solved: Moving root volume - NetApp Community

Re: Moving 7-Mode root partition

paul_stejskal — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:56:50 GMT

https://kb.netapp.com/Advice_and_Troubleshooting/Data_Storage_Software/ONTAP_OS_7_Mode/How_to_move_or_rename_the_root_volume_on_a_storage_system