suspendvol

Suspends one or more volumes so that the metadata server cannot allocate new data on the volumes.

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>>-suspendvol--+----------+--+---volume_name-+-+---------------><
               +- –?----+  '- – -----------'
               +- –h----+
               '- –help-'

Parameters

–? | –h | –help
Displays a detailed description of this command, including syntax, parameter descriptions, and examples. If you specify a help option, all other command options are ignored.
volume_name
Specifies the names of one or more volumes to suspend.
Specifies that you want to read the names of one or more volumes to suspend from stdin (for example, – << /work/vol_list.txt).

Prerequisites

You must have Administrator privileges to use the command.

You must be logged in to the operating system on the engine hosting the master metadata server to run this command.

Example

Suspend a volume The following example suspends activity on volume vol2:
sfscli> suspendvol vol2
Volume vol2 suspended.

Parent topic: Administrative commands

Related reference
activatevol
chvol
expandvol
lslun
lsvol
mkvol
rediscoverluns
reportvolfiles
rmvol

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