Increasing The Volume Size In Other Environments; Changing Configuration Characteristics To Manage Space - HP StorageWorks P4000 User Manual

Increasing the volume size in other environments

Environments other than Windows use alternative disk management tools, which use a utility called
Extpart.exe. The only major difference is that instead of selecting the volume number, as in Diskpart.exe,
you select the drive letter instead.

Changing configuration characteristics to manage space

Options for managing space on the cluster include
• Changing snapshot retention retaining fewer snapshots requires less space
• Changing schedules to snapshot a volume taking snapshots less frequently requires less space
• Deleting volumes or moving them to a different cluster
NOTE:
Deleting files on a file system does not free up space on the SAN volume. For more information, see
Block systems and file
file system-level tools.
204 Provisioning storage
systems" on page 202. For file-level capacity management, use application or