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Unable to set volume attribute "size" for volume Reason: Selected volume size is too small to hold the current volume data

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Applies to

ONTAP 9

Issue

Below error message can be found when trying reduce the total size of the volume.

::> volume modify -vserver svm1 -volume vol1-size 75T -percent-snapshot-space 80
Error: command failed: Unable to set volume attribute "size" for volume "paas05_k0" on Vserver "kcnavm_nfs0". Reason: Selected volume size is too small to hold the 
current volume data. New volume size must be at least 80.8TB to hold the current volume data.

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