Managing Gfs; Making A File System - Red Hat GFS 6.1 Administrator's Manual

Managing GFS

This chapter describes the tasks and commands for managing GFS and consists of the
following sections:
Section 5.1 Making a File System
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Section 5.2 Mounting a File System
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Section 5.3 Unmounting a File System
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Section 5.4 GFS Quota Management
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Section 5.5 Growing a File System
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Section 5.6 Adding Journals to a File System
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Section 5.7 Direct I/O
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Section 5.8 Data Journaling
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Section 5.9 Configuring
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Section 5.10 Suspending Activity on a File System
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Section 5.11 Displaying Extended GFS Information and Statistics
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Section 5.12 Repairing a File System
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Section 5.13 Context-Dependent Path Names
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5.1. Making a File System

Once a cluster is set up and running, you can create a GFS file system with the
command. A file system is created on an activated CLVM volume. The following informa-
tion is required to run the
Lock protocol/module name (for example,
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Cluster name
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Number of journals (one journal required for each node that may be mounting the file
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system)
Updates
atime
command:
gfs_mkfs
Chapter 5.
)
lock_dlm
gfs_mkfs