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HP StorageWorks File System Extender Software user guide 81
NOTE: The option --force will allow formatting of the FSE medium only if there is no valid FSE
user data stored on it (the value of Used[%] for all medium volumes is zero).
• LTO media do not need formatting, since they can only contain one FSE medium volume.
During formatting, the FSE medium is partitioned into FSE medium volumes.
Figure 22 Formatting and initializing an FSE medium
10.Click Confirm.
11.Repeat the steps 8 and 9 for each additional FSE medium that you want to format and initialize.
Once FSE media are formatted and initialized, the HSM file systems can be mounted.
Phase 6: mounting HSM file systems
After you have configured the FSE resources, you have to mount the HSM file systems on machines that host
HSM file systems, that is on a consolidated FSE system or on an external FSE client. Once the file systems
are mounted, the FSE implementation is ready to be used.
NOTE: A particular HSM file system is related to a single FSE partition.
Mounting HSM file systems on the Linux platform
To mount the local HSM file systems and automate subsequent mounting of them, proceed as follows. Use
the mount points and device file paths from your actual file system configuration on the local host.
The procedure depends on whether the mount points are already configured and the local file
/etc/fstab is already updated as described in the FSE installation guide for Linux.
To perform this task on a system where the mount points are already configured, and the local file
/etc/fstab is already updated with the inactive HSM file system entries, follow the steps:
1. On the consolidated FSE system or FSE server, run the following command to check the status of the FSE
partitions:
The reported status for all configured partitions must be ready.
2. On the consolidated FSE system or external FSE client, activate the HSM file system entries in the local
file /etc/fstab by removing the commenting characters from the corresponding lines.
3. Mount the local HSM file systems. This step depends on where you are about to mounting the HSM file
systems.
fsesystem --status