In a perfect world you would restart the whole server and library JIC
... but ...

The TS3310 is normally configured to use physical partitions ie the OS
and Software only see the slots in the partitions not the cleaning slot
so effectively the library looses a slot from TSM's POV. This would mean
that the library geometry would change.

Provided no other changes were made eg control path, cabling, os
configuration. There shouldn't be any changes in the tape drive ordering.

Deleting the partition and recreating it will make the library go
"Offline" for a period so I would offline the TSM library path while
this was done.

Are you using the IBM tape and library drivers? What OS are you using?

After the change you should be able to use the OS tools to get
information about library slots and check that it is correct.

One that is working set the TSM library path online

Run an audit library.

run show slots and show library in TSM to confirm that the new changes
have been picked up.

I haven't tried this so YMMV

Grant




On 20/08/13 05:25, Geoff Gill wrote:

Hello,

I posted a question which didn't really get any response so I'd like to reword 
this to see if anyone has a comment.

This is a TS3310 Tape library. Whoever defined everything initially removed the default 
cleaning slot and there is no way to insert a cleaning tape because there are no cleaning 
slots defined. There are empty slots available so here is the question. If I go to modify 
the logical library and bring the "Configure Storage Slots" number down by 1 
slot to free up an empty slot, does anyone know if there is a reboot of the library or 
library audit or any issues I need to worry about?

Thank You
Geoff Gill