11.4 Creating Additional Storage Pools

You can create as many additional storage pools as you need and adjust their contents as necessary using the ClearCase Administration Console or the cleartool command line. On UNIX hosts, you can optionally create remote storage pools.

Tools for Working with Storage Pools

You can use the ClearCase Administration Console on a Windows host to manage storage pools on Windows or UNIX hosts anywhere in your ClearCase network. Navigate to the Pools subnode of the VOB storage node for a VOB. The VOB storage node is itself a subnode of the host node for the host on which the VOB storage directory resides. Using the Pools node, you can create, delete, and rename a storage pool and change the parameters used for scrubbing a pool.

You can also use the cleartool command line. The following cleartool subcommands are basic tools for working with VOB storage pools. Each has its own reference page in the Command Reference, which provides complete details on its use.

cleartool Subcommands

mkpool
Creates a new storage pool; with -update, it adjusts an existing pool's scrubbing parameters.

lspool
Lists basic information about one or more storage pools. The describe pool:pool-name command lists the same information.

rename pool:pool-name

Renames a storage pool.

rmpool
Deletes a storage pool.

chpool
Reassigns elements to a different pool.

checkvob
Finds and fixes inconsistencies between the VOB database and VOB storage pools.

space -vob

Reports disk space used by the VOB database and each storage pool.

dospace
Reports disk space used by shared derived objects.