The Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) vxassist maxgrow option allows you to find out exactly how much space is available for growing a volume.

The following links provide more information on using the vxassist maxgrow option for growing a volume:

• Growing the existing storage by growing the LUN

• CVM commands supported for executing on the slave node

vxassist (1M) manual pages:

• AIX

• HP-UX

• Linux

• Solaris

vxassist (1M) manual pages for other releases can be found on the SORT website.

For information on how to create a maximum-sized volume using the vxassist maxsize option, see the following Symantec Connect article.