Hello Brian
>
> Hello. In the process of replacing a failing disk I find myself
> wanting to move the read-only volumes from that disk onto another disk. I
> accomplished this task by first using the vos remsite command to delete
> the entry pointing to the bad disk. Next, I did an vos addsite to add
> another replicated volume to the new location. Unfortunately, the amount
> of disk freespace on the original disk didn't go up as I expected, although
> I believed the olume was deleted from the original disk. When I performed
> a vos listvldb on the original disk, I still saw the readonly volume there.
> Thinking I could zap it, I did so. The vos zap command warned me that a
> vldb entry still existed, so, when it was done, I did a vos remove
> explicitly on the readonly copy of the volume on the old partition. The
> result was that my read-write copy god deleted and references to all
> read-only copies went as well. So, my question is:
> How do I free space on disks which had readonly volumes on them when I move
> those copies to other disks without trashing the readwrite copy and other
> readonly copies?
> -thanks
> -Brian
you must use "vos remove" and thereafter "vos addsite" and "vos release".
For example:
vos remove bad_server bad_partition data.readonly
vos addsite good_server good_partition data
vos release data
Hope that helps
Gunther Borrmann
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