topic Re: Shrinking vol0 in AFF

Shrinking vol0

dkon — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:42:09 GMT

Anybody know how to shrink the root volume on an A300 running ONTAP 9.5 so the root aggregate isn't 95% full? Seems like the old way (https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1197116/html/GUID-35DF3E11-B29A-43F4-BD77-79B50620762E.html) doesn't work.

Re: Shrinking vol0

SpindleNinja — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 15:53:01 GMT

It's just thick, I'd leave it as is.

Re: Shrinking vol0

AndreUnterberg — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 20:22:30 GMT

As SpindelNinja mentioned, leave it as is. Some space needs to be free within the root vol. For example if you are doing ONTAP Updates the image files needs some space to be stored in. kind regards Andre

Re: Shrinking vol0

dkon — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 15:20:19 GMT

Thanks for the replies. Turns out the issue is that a root volume of 348.6g is already smaller than the minimum possible size of 350g for the A300. With ADP the root aggregates are just really small.

Re: Shrinking vol0

SpindleNinja — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 16:46:25 GMT

*useable space? there's also probably snapshot space in there.