Dot Hill Systems SANnet II 200, Installation, Operation And Service Manual

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G-4 SANnet II 200 SCSI Array Installation, Operation, and Service Manual • June 2005
G.4 Creating a Filesystem
1. Log in as
root,
or
su
to root if you are logged in as a user.
2. Take the device that you ran
fdisk
on and run the following command to create an
ext3 filesystem:
where
x
= the partition that you want to have become a filesystem. Replace
x
with
1
since there is only one partition.
G.5 Creating a Mount Point and Mounting the
Filesystem Manually
1. Go to the directory where you want to create a directory to use as the mount point.
2. Type this command:
3. To mount your filesystem, type the following:
where x = 1 for this partition.
G.6 Mounting the Filesystem Automatically
You can label the partition so that it can be entered in the
fstab
file for mounting the
partition automatically at bootup. The use of the label and
fstab
file is a faster
operation than mounting the filesystem manually with a device path.
1. Type the following command to add a label to the partition:
where x = 1 for this partition and the directory path is the directory that was created
and where it is located.
# mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb(x)
# mkdir name
# mount /dev/sdb(x) /directory path
# e2label /dev/sdb(x) /
directory_path