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FAS2040: Volume 'vol0' cannot be resized below 133 GB on this appliance because it is the root volume.

IRVING_POPOVETSKY
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New FAS2040 filer setup.     With ONTAP 7.3,   the vol0 minimum size was 13GB.    Now with ONTAP 8.0.2,  I cannot resize below 133GB?  What gives?   Any way around this?

hqna2> vol size vol0 -10g

vol size: Volume 'vol0' cannot be resized below 133 GB on this appliance because it is the root volume

hqna2> vol status -v

         Volume State           Status            Options                     

           vol0 online          raid4, flex       root, diskroot, nosnap=off, 

                                                  nosnapdir=off, minra=off,

                                                  no_atime_update=on, nvfail=off,

                                                  ignore_inconsistent=off,

                                                  snapmirrored=off,

                                                  create_ucode=on,

                                                  convert_ucode=on,

                                                  maxdirsize=28835,

                                                  schedsnapname=ordinal,

                                                  fs_size_fixed=off,

                                                  compression=off,

                                                  guarantee=volume, svo_enable=off,

                                                  svo_checksum=off,

                                                  svo_allow_rman=off,

                                                  svo_reject_errors=off,

                                                  no_i2p=off, fractional_reserve=0,

                                                  extent=off,

                                                  try_first=volume_grow,

                                                  read_realloc=off,

                                                  snapshot_clone_dependency=off,

                                                  nbu_archival_snap=off

                         Volume UUID: e17988c0-e42b-11e0-aaa9-00a0984bdf30

                    Containing aggregate: 'aggr1'

                Plex /aggr1/plex0: online, normal, active

                    RAID group /aggr1/plex0/rg0: normal

          Snapshot autodelete settings for vol0:

                                                  state=on

                                                  commitment=try

                                                  trigger=volume

                                                  target_free_space=20%

                                                  delete_order=oldest_first

                                                  defer_delete=user_created

                                                  prefix=(not specified)

                                                  destroy_list=none

          Volume autosize settings:

                                        state=off

hqna2> version

NetApp Release 8.0.2 7-Mode: Mon Jun 13 14:14:26 PDT 2011

hqna2*> df

Filesystem              kbytes       used      avail capacity  Mounted on

/vol/vol0/           132487588    2008696  130478892       2%  /vol/vol0/

/vol/vol0/.snapshot    6973020       6508    6966512       0%  /vol/vol0/.snapshot


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pascalduk
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Unfortunately NetApp dramatically increased the minimum size of the root volume in Ontap 8 and there is no supported way to get around it:

http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/ontap/rel802/html/ontap/sysadmin/GUID-94356B0F-EB14-43E5-9AEC-8EDDC6AA02AA.html

BTW, it is a bit surprising that the documentation (160 GB) does not match the limit Ontap 8 actually reports (133 GB).

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