Formatting Procedure - Oracle Netra Server X5-2 Installation Manual

Table 9-3
Volume Number
systempartition
system partition
data partitions 1-4

Formatting Procedure

The format command requires one of the following arguments:
• system-disk — formats and creates the 2 system partitions: /opt and /opt/
crash
• data-disk — formats and creates 1 or more data partitions with the default
(/mnt/sys and /mnt/app) or user-defined volumes
• hard-disk — formats and creates both the system partition and data partition
After the drive(s) are formatted, the system mounts the newly created partitions.
Use the format hard-disk command and argument after first system start up to fully
initialize the media. The command's other arguments are applicable any other time.
Note:
The format command may only be executed if certain tasks like local CDR
and HDR generation are not active. Remove any boot time configuration for
these features and reboot the system before attempting to format the hard-
disk. In addition, ensure that your device is not passing traffic while you
format any partition.
The following example shows the format command process.
ORACLE# format hard-disk
WARNING: Please ensure device is not currently in use by any
applications before proceeding
Continue [y/n]?: y
The following system partitions will now be created:
1: /opt
2: /crash
Create the system partitions and filesystems as configured above [y/
n]?: y
******************************************************
WARNING: All system logs and data on the disk will be
permanently erased and unrecoverable.
Are you sure [y/n]?: y
The format process will take a few minutes. Once
the format process begins, it cannot be stopped.
Please do not power down or reboot the system until
Custom System Format Plan (40 GB +):
Volume Name
/opt
/opt/crash
/mnt/<user-label>
8000000 bytes
16218284032 bytes
Chapter 9
Formatting Procedure
Volume Size
8 GB
2 x RAM size (not less than 8
GB)
user-defined percentage of
remaining space
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