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Command Line Utilities
8.1
Partitioning and Configuring with vgc-config
Most Administrative tasks for the Seagate X8 Accelerator devices are handled by the “vgc-config” utility. This
utility can be used to show the current partitioning and write acceleration modes on an existing drive.
8.2
vgc-config Options
The usage information for vgc-config is listed below. While additional options are available within the utility, most
users will only need to select a number of partitions (“-n XX”) and a write performance profile (“-m YYY”) to set up
the Seagate X8 Accelerator devices for use.
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Once configuration changes have been made with vgc-config, the configuration
needs to be committed to the device.
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IMPORTANT: Changing the partitioning of the X8 Accelerator drive will erase
existing data.
