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How To: Rename a Volume

Authored by: mjsanders on Wednesday, May 25 2011 @ 08:20 AM EDT

I tried this on a Xsan 2.2 Volume in a test environment (Mac OS X 10.6.7/Xsan 2.2)
the procedure works with a few tweaks:

after step 4:
-change the name of the file Volumename-auxdate.plist to

desiredname-
auxdata.plist

-edit automount.plist and change old volumename to desiredname

step 5 needs most tweaking.
as noted above, sudo cvfsck is not working
We did:
sudo -s to run as root, and then

cvfsck 
-w

with interactive repair.
only when running as root the ICB was really fixed.
test it by running cvfsck a second time, without the sudo -s the ICB error needed repair (again)

step 6:
use cvadmin to start new volume, and activate.

The Graphical Xsan Admin gets confused (but that is expected :-) re-connect to mdc.