Deleting A Netware Partition; Creating And Mounting A Traditional Volume; Section 3.6, "Deleting A Netware Partition; Section 3.7, "Creating And Mounting A Traditional Volume - Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 System Administration Manual

3.6 Deleting a NetWare Partition

If you delete a partition, you destroy all volumes and data on that partition.
If the partition is mirrored, the other partitions in the mirror group retains the data from the deleted
partition. Before you can delete a mirrored partition, unmirror the partition, then delete it.
Unmirror a Partition
1 In Novell Remote Manager for NetWare, click Manager Servers > Partition Disks.
2 Locate and the partition you want to unmirror, then click the Remove Mirror link next to it.
Delete a Partition
1 Delete all Traditional volumes contained in the partition you want to delete.
2 Click Manage Server > Partition Disks.
3 Locate the partition you want to delete, then click Delete link next to its name.
4 Click OK to confirm the delete.

3.7 Creating and Mounting a Traditional Volume

To create Traditional volumes on your NetWare server, follow these guidelines:
To create a Traditional volume:
1 In Novell Remote Manager for NetWare, Click Manage Server > Partition Disks.
2 Locate the free space on the device where you want to create the volume, then click the Create
3 In the Partition Type drop down-list, select the type of partition you want to create. For
4 Provide information for the required fields for the type of partition and volume you want to
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This removes the partition from the mirror group. You can now delete the partition, if desired.
This removes the partition from the mirror group. You can now delete the partition.
1a Click Manager Servers > Volumes to view a list of volumes.
IMPORTANT: Volumes must have the Long namespace enabled in order to appear in the
list in Novell Remote Manager. To enable the Long namespace, see
"Loading and Installing Name Spaces on a Traditional Volume," on page
1b For each volume you want to delete, locate the volume, then click the Delete link next to
it.
You cannot put Traditional volumes in an NSS storage pool.
If you create a Traditional volume in NetWare 6.5 or later, you cannot access that volume from
previous releases of NetWare. The file system format is not compatible.
link next to it.
example, a Traditional NetWare partition.
create, then select the check boxes for the volume attributes that you want to set.
Section 3.13,
22.