HP XP P9000 Configuration Guide (AV400-96525, November 2012)

4. Select w to write the partition information to disk and complete the fdisk command.
5. Other commands that you might want to use include:
d to remove partitions
q to stop a change
6. Repeat steps 1–5 for each device.
Creating the file systems
The supported file system for Linux is ext3.
Creating file systems with ext3
1. Enter mkfs –t ext3 /dev/device_name.
Example
# mkfs –t ext3 /dev/sdd
2. Repeat step 1 for each device on the disk array.
Creating the mount directories
Create mount directories using the mkdir command. Choose names for the mount directories
which identify both the logical volume and partition.
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