Repairing A Storage Medium; Formatting A Storage Medium; Mounting Or Unmounting A Storage Medium - HP FlexFabric 7900 Series Configuration Manual

If you remove a storage medium while a folder or file on the storage medium is being accessed, the
device might not recognize the storage medium when you reinstall it. To reinstall this kind of a storage
medium, complete one of the following tasks:
• If you were accessing a folder on the storage medium, change the current directory.
If you were accessing a file on the storage medium, close the file.
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If another administrator was accessing the storage medium, unmount all partitions on the storage
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medium.
Before you repair or format a USB disk, make sure the disk is not write protected.

Repairing a storage medium

If part of a storage medium is inaccessible, use the fixdisk command to examine and repair the medium.
Before repairing a storage medium, make sure no other users are accessing the medium. Otherwise, the
repair operation fails.
Perform this task in user view.
Task
Repair a storage medium.

Formatting a storage medium

CAUTION:
After a storage medium is formatted, all files and directories on it are erased and cannot be restored.
To format a storage medium that has been partitioned, you must format all the partitions individually,
instead of formatting the medium as a whole. You can format a storage medium only when no one is
accessing the medium.
Perform this task in user view.
Task
Format a storage medium.

Mounting or unmounting a storage medium

Generally, a hot-swappable storage medium is automatically mounted when it is connected to the device.
If the system cannot recognize the storage medium, however, you must mount the storage medium before
you can access it.
To remove a hot-swappable storage medium from the device, you must first unmount it to disconnect it
from the device. Otherwise, files on the storage medium or even the storage medium itself might be
damaged.
Command
fixdisk medium-name
Command
format medium-name
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