Maintenance Manual

Managing the System

Disk Management

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You should see the login message as: Login session [iface: default, target:

iqn.2004-04.com:NAS:iSCSI.ForUbuntu.B9281B, portal: 10.8.12.31,3260] [ OK ]

STEP 6 Check the device status with dmesg.

# dmesg | tail

STEP 7 Enter the following command to create a partition. In this example, /dev/sdb is the

device name.

# fdisk /dev/sdb

STEP 8 Format the partition using the following command:

# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1

STEP 9 Mount the file system using these two commands:

# mkdir /mnt/iscsi

# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/iscsi/

STEP 10 You can test the I/O speed using the following command:

# hdparm -tT /dev/sdb1

STEP 11 Below are some “iscsiadm” related commands:

Discover the targets on the host:

# iscsiadm -m discovery --type sendtargets --portal HOST_IP

# iscsiadm –m node --targetname THE_TARGET_IQN --login

Logout a target:

# iscsiadm –m node --targetname THE_TARGET_IQN --logout

Delete a target:

# iscsiadm –m node --op delete --targetname THE_TARGET_IQN