HP XP P9500 Disk Array Configuration Guide (AV400-96496, May 2014)

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 ext2.
Creating file systems with ext2
1. Enter mkfs –t ext2 /dev/device_name.
Example
# mkfs –t ext2 /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.
1. Enter mkdir /mnt/mount_point.
Example
# mkdir /mnt/A5700F_LU00
2. Repeat step 1 for each device on the disk array.
Creating the mount table
Add the new devices to the /etc/fstab file to specify the automount parameters for each device.
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