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Label Drives on Linux
You must label each drive to be used by StorNext FS. A new drive needs to be labeled only one
time. Drive labeling can be performed from any StorNext client that has a Fibre Channel connection
to the drive.
To label a drive:
Step 1 From the system prompt on any StorNext FS client, display a list of connected drives.
Enter:
# /usr/cvfs/bin/cvlabel -1
Sample output looks like this:
Step 2 From the output information, identify any drives that are unused or do not have a
recognized Volume Type and write down their associated device names.
CAUTION
The process of disk labeling re-partitions the drives. If you select an
incorrect drive, you may lose data.
NOTE
The cvlabel command only lists or modifies drives listed in
/etc/sysconfig/rawdevices. For more information about the rawdevices file,
see page
5-10.
CAUTION
Identify any drives that already contain a recognized Volume Type.
Do not write a label to these drives or you may lose data.
sdb [SEAGATE ST19171FS 0018] unknown Sectors: 17691712. Sector Size: 512.
sdc [SEAGATE ST19171FS 0018] unknown Sectors: 17691712. Sector Size: 512.
sdd [SEAGATE ST19171FS 0018] unknown Sectors: 17691712. Sector Size: 512.