About this task
This task modifies the following filesystem attributes:
- Name
- Size
- Thin provisioning
- SSD cache
A filesystem can only have its size increased. Shrinking a filesystem is not supported.
Prerequisites
- A filesystem
Before you begin
Access the filesystem from the Volumes & FS screen. Then either:
- Select a filesystem and select Modify Filesystem from the Actions menu.
or
- Click a filesystem to display it on screen, and select Modify Filesystem from the Actions menu.
Instructions
- Upon selecting Modify Filesystem, the Modify Filesystem screen opens.
- Modify one of the attributes that are available for modification.
- Click Modify.
The filesystem is modified.
Related GUI tasks
You can modify other filesystem values using the following tasks:
- Calculating the reclaimable space of a filesystem
- Write-protecting a filesystem
- Write-enabling a filesystem
Related InfiniShell commands
Modifying the filesystem attributes using InfiniShell is available via the following commands:
fs.cache
- enabling the filesystem to use InfiniBox flash cachefs.rename
- renaming the filesystemfs.resize
- resizing the filesystemfs.set_thin
- setting the filesystem provisioning type
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