Understanding how to split a mirror set – HP NetRAID-4M Controller User Manual

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Modifying Containers

Assign a drive letter to the split container using the

container assign drive_letter

command. See

Chapter 6, Working with Container Attributes, for a description
of how to assign a drive letter.

Run the Windows NT or Windows 2000

CHKDSK

command

with the

/F

switch. See your Windows NT or Windows 2000

documentation for information on how to use the

CHKDSK

command.

To work with splitting a mirror set, you must understand:

The container split attributes that you can specify

How to split a mirror set

Splitting a mirror set in a UNIX environment

The following sections discuss each of these topics.

Understanding the Mirror Split Attributes You can Specify

You use the

container split

command to split a mirror set. The

container split

command has no attributes.

Understanding How to Split a Mirror Set

This section provides an example that describes how to split a mir-
ror set.

Before splitting a mirror set, use the

container list

command to

display information about your containers, as in the following
example. In the example, the Type column indicates that a mirror set
resides on container 0. The SCSI C:ID:L column indicates that the
container consists of partitions on SCSI devices 2:01:0 and 2:02:0.

HPN0> container list

Executing: container list

Cluster Num Total Oth Stripe Scsi Partition

Dr Partner Label Type Size Ctr Size Usage C:ID:L Offset:Size

-- ------- ----- ------ ------ --- ------ ------- ------ -------------

0 0 Mirror 100MB None 2:01:0 64.0KB: 100MB

2:02:0 64.0KB: 100MB

To split a mirror set, use the

container split

command, as in the

following example. In the example, container 0 is split, and
container 1 is created.

HPN0> container split 0

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