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Change size of Volume.
Posted: 16 Aug 2023, 20:09
by Demos
f2-221, TOS 5.1.41. RAID 1
How to reduce Volume size? Common way (Control Panel – Volume, Choose Volume, push “Edit” button) doesn’t work. In “Edit” window when I try to print less capacity I have (See picture) and press “Confirm”, I see note “Operation succeed”, but nothing changes.
How to decrease Volume size?
Re: Change size of Volume.
Posted: 16 Aug 2023, 23:25
by TMeric
The size of the volume can only be increased, not decreased. In the case that your storage pool still has space.
Re: Change size of Volume.
Posted: 17 Aug 2023, 02:57
by Demos
TMeric wrote: ↑16 Aug 2023, 23:25
The size of the volume can only be increased, not decreased. In the case that your storage pool still has space.
OK. If I need reduce the volume what should I do?
Re: Change size of Volume.
Posted: 17 Aug 2023, 09:56
by TMroy
Sorry, you just can't.
Re: Change size of Volume.
Posted: 18 Sep 2023, 22:07
by ElPabloMaximo
In most storage scenerio's, volume shrinkage is not allowed because data is not always written from 'front-to-back' in a partition. Assuming you have the available space, you can
1) create a new volume of the desired size
2) move the data to the newly created volume
3) remove the old volume
This said, recent Windows OS can shrink a partition/volume but best to do a proper defrag first. Some storage systems 'say' they can shrink a volume/partition but they are really doing steps 1-3 I just posted in the background.