Resizing a Thick or Thin Volume
The maximum capacity of thick and thin volumes can be increased or decreased.
Operation |
Details |
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Expand Volume |
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Shrink Volume |
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Volume Type |
Maximum Allowed Capacity |
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Thick |
Amount of free space in the parent storage pool. |
Thin |
Twenty times the amount of free space in the parent storage pool. Important:
Setting the maximum size of a thin volume to a value that is greater than the amount of free space in the storage pool is called over-allocation. |
After expansion is complete, the volume status changes back to Ready.