Creating The File Systems; Creating File Systems With Ext2 - HP StorageWorks XP10000 - Disk Array Configuration Manual

2. Select p to display the present partitions.
3. Select n to make a new partition. You can make up to four primary partitions or you can make
one extended partition. The extended partition can be divided into a maximum of 11 logical
partitions, which can be assigned partition numbers from 5 to 15.
4. Select w to write the partition information to disk and complete the fdisk command.
5. Other commands that you might want to use include:
d to remove partitions
q to stop a change
6. Repeat the above steps for each device.

Creating the file systems

The supported file system for Linux is ext2.

Creating file systems with ext2

1. Enter mkfs
Example
# mkfs
2. Repeat step 1 for each device on the disk array.
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t ext2 /dev/device_name.
t ext2 /dev/sdd