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Parameter Description
addDrives
The setting to add new drives to the logical drive. For
high-capacity drive expansion enclosures, specify the
enclosure ID value, the drawer ID value, and the slot ID
value for the drive. For low-capacity drive expansion
enclosures, specify the enclosure ID value and the slot ID
value for the drive. Enclosure ID values are
0 to 99 .
Drawer ID values are
1
to
5
. Slot ID values are
1
to
32
.
Enclose the enclosure ID value, drawer ID value, and the
slot ID value in parentheses.
Notes
In some cases a drive parameter might appear as valid input for the command syntax. However, you
cannot use the drive parameter with this command.
Setting the
incrementalCapacity
parameter, starts a long-running operation that you cannot stop.
Long-running operations are performed in the background and do not prevent you from running other
commands. To show the progress of long-running operations, use the
show logicaldrive actionProgress
command.
The
addDrives
parameter supports both high-capacity drive expansion enclosures and low-capacity drive
expansion enclosures. A high-capacity drive expansion enclosure has drawers that hold the drives. The
drawers slide out of the drive expansion enclosure to provide access to the drives. A low capacity drive
expansion enclosure does not have drawers. For a high-capacity drive expansion enclosure, you must
specify the identifier (ID) of the drive expansion enclosure, the ID of the drawer, and the ID of the slot in
which a drive resides. For a low-capacity drive expansion enclosure, you need to only specify the ID of
the drive expansion enclosure and the ID of the slot in which a drive resides. For a low-capacity drive
expansion enclosure, an alternative method for identifying a location for a drive is to specify the ID of
the drive expansion enclosure, set the ID of the drawer to
0
, and specify the ID of the slot in which a
drive resides.
Initialize Thin Logical Drive
This command initializes or re-initializes a thin logical drive.
Note: Initializing a thin logical drive starts a long-running operation that you cannot stop.
Syntax
start logicaldrive [logicaldriveName] initialize
[existingRepositoryLabel=existingRepositoryName |
diskPool="diskPoolName" capacity=capacityValue|
retainRepositoryMembers=[TRUE|FALSE]]
Parameters
Parameter Description
logicaldrive The name of the logical drive for which you are starting
the formatting. Enclose the logical drive name in square
brackets ([ ]). If the logical drive name has special
characters, you also must enclose the logical drive name
in double quotation marks (" ").
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