Supported volume types

You can use Volume Shredder to shred open systems, including logical devices (LDEVs) and custom volumes (CVs). External volumes and Dynamic Provisioning virtual volumes* can also be shredded.

*When a shredding operation is performed on an unused virtual volume for Dynamic Provisioning, no dummy data is written to the volume.

You cannot use Volume Shredder to shred the following types of volumes:

Pool volumes

Virtual volumes for Thin Image

Journal volumes

Volumes that are not write-enabled (access attribute is not read/write)