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A single disk can contain volume segments from multiple volumes. If a single disk fails, each
volume segment on it fails, causing all of the volumes that have volume segments on that server disk
to fail. To achieve fault tolerance, you should protect the volumes against disk failure by setting up a
software RAID 1 (mirroring) device for the partitions. See “Using Software RAID1 Devices for
Data Fault Tolerance” on page 35.
You can add volume segments to a Traditional volume if free space is available, but you cannot
remove them. Removing a segment from a volume destroys the entire volume.
You can increase the size of a Traditional volume by adding another server disk to the NetWare
server, setting up a NetWare partition on the disk, then adding one or more segments in the partition
to the existing volume.
1.3 What’s Next
Use the table below to determine where next to go in this document.
Task Reference
Configure and manage Traditional NetWare
partitions and volumes
Chapter 3, “Configuring and Managing NetWare
Traditional Volumes,” on page 17
Optimize storage performance Chapter 4, “Configuring Advanced Features for
Traditional Volumes,” on page 29
Create a software RAID device Chapter 5, “Using Software RAID1 Devices for
Data Fault Tolerance,” on page 35
Chapter 6, “Using Software RAID0 Devices to
Enhance Disk I/O Performance,” on page 41
Troubleshoot problems Chapter 8, “Troubleshooting,” on page 51
Plan your directory structure “Planning Directory Structures for NetWare” in the
OES 2: File Systems Management Guide.
Create and manage directories and files, including
purging and salvaging (undeleting) deleted files
“Configuring Directories for NetWare and NSS on
Linux” in the OES 2: File Systems Management
Guide.
Configure file system trustees, trustee rights,
inherited rights filters, and attributes for directories
and files
“Configuring File System Trustees, Trustee Rights,
Inherited Rights Filters, and Attributes” in the OES
2: File Systems Management Guide.
