https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/shrink-volume/m-p/5331345#M44922 <P>Hi</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>It may be a silly question but I didn't found a clear answer to this...</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I have a P2000 G3 FC MSA array configured with 1 vdisk (raid 5) and 1 volume (entire capacity) and I need to shrink the volume so I could make some available space for another(s) volume(s).</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Is it even possible?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>10x</P> Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:14:53 GMT amisssu 2011-09-14T10:14:53Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/shrink-volume/m-p/5331345#M44922 <P>Hi</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>It may be a silly question but I didn't found a clear answer to this...</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I have a P2000 G3 FC MSA array configured with 1 vdisk (raid 5) and 1 volume (entire capacity) and I need to shrink the volume so I could make some available space for another(s) volume(s).</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Is it even possible?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>10x</P> Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:14:53 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/shrink-volume/m-p/5331345#M44922 amisssu 2011-09-14T10:14:53Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/shrink-volume/m-p/5332655#M44924 <P>No there is no option to shrink the volume size.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>What I can suggest you like without taking risk with your live data, it is always better to take your backup and delete the entire volume and recreate volumes as per your requirement.</P> Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:15:42 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/shrink-volume/m-p/5332655#M44924 SUBHAJIT KHANBARMAN_1 2011-09-15T08:15:42Z