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Disable deduplication on a volume

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You can disable postprocess deduplication and inline deduplication independently on a volume.

Before you begin

Stop any volume efficiency operation that is currently active on the volume: volume efficiency stop

Learn more about volume efficiency stop in the ONTAP command reference.

About this task

If you have enabled data compression on the volume, running the volume efficiency off command disables data compression. Learn more about volume efficiency off in the ONTAP command reference.

Choices

  • Use the volume efficiency off command to disable both postprocess deduplication and inline deduplication.

    The following command disable both postprocess deduplication and inline deduplication on volume VolA:

    volume efficiency off -vserver vs1 -volume VolA

  • Use the volume efficiency modify command with the -policy option set to inline only to disable postprocess deduplication, but inline deduplication remains enabled.

    The following command disables postprocess deduplication, but inline deduplication remains enabled on volume VolA:

    volume efficiency modify -vserver vs1 -volume VolA -policy inline-only

  • Use the volume efficiency modify command with the -inline-deduplication option set to false to disable inline deduplication only.

    The following command disables only inline deduplication on volume VolA:

    volume efficiency modify -vserver vs1 -volume VolA -inline-deduplication false

    Learn more about volume efficiency modify in the ONTAP command reference.