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Appendix
Formatting Z-Drive From The Linux Command Line
Follow these steps to prepare a Z-Drive for use under Linux using line-mode commands
Fdisk and parted can both be used to partition a drive. If a drive is larger than 2TB parted must be used.
Since most Z-Drives are larger than 2TB the examples that follow show the use of parted.
Use parted to display a new out-of-the box uninitialized drive
[root@x8dah oczeng]# parted /dev/sdc print
Error: /dev/sdc: unrecognised disk label
[root@x8dah
oczeng]#
Use parted to put a gpt label on the drive
[root@x8dah
oczeng]#
[root@x8dah oczeng]# parted /dev/sdc mklabel gpt
Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab.
[root@x8dah
oczeng]#
USE parted to print drive information and prove the gpt label was applied. Parted now shows a 1.6TB
Z-Drive
[root@x8dah
oczeng]#
[root@x8dah oczeng]# parted /dev/sdc print
Model: ATA OCZ Z-DRIVE R4 R (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 1600GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition
Table:
gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
[root@x8dah
oczeng]#
