Admin operations on an unmounted VxFS thin volume

A thin volume is a volume composed of one or more thin LUNs. If a thin volume is not a mounted on a VxFS file system, any resynchronization, synchronization, or refresh operation on the volume, plex, or subdisk performs a full synchronization and allocates storage on the unused space of the volume. Only a mounted VxFS file system can use SmartMove to assist with optimized administrative operations on thin volumes.

By default, commands that mirror, take snapshots, or attach a plex may fail with an error message.

Some commands use the -f option and others use the -o force option to force the command. The command manual page contains details of the force option to be used.

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The full new plex or volume allocates physical storage on thin LUNs and will not be a thin/optimized operation.