Working with file systems, Adding a file system, Working with file systems 9-33 – HP NetRAID-4M Controller User Manual

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Modifying Containers

After running the

container remove global_spare

command

to remove one or more spare disks from all containers managed by a
controller, use the

container show spare

command to display

information about your spare disks, as in the following example. In
the example, SCSI devices (2,2,0) (2,3,0) no longer appear as global
spare disks in the

container show spare

command output.

HPN0> container show spare

Executing: container show spare

Container Scsi C:ID:L

_________ ___________________________

0 --- No Devices Assigned ---

1 --- No Devices Assigned ---

Working with File Systems

The CLI allows you to perform the following operations on a file
system:

Add a file system to a container

Extend a file system on a container

Remove a file system from a container

The following sections describe how to perform these operations.

Adding a File System

The CLI allows you to add a file system to a container. You use the

container format

command to add a file system to a container.

Note that a drive letter must be assigned to a container in order to
add a file system. See Chapter 6, Working with Container Attributes,
for a description of how to assign a drive letter.

You can optionally add an NTFS file system that is compressed.
Compression is not supported on an NTFS file system with an
allocation size greater than 4 KB. Compression is not supported on a
FAT file system because allocation size begins at 8 KB.

To work with adding a file system to a container, you must
understand:

The file system attributes you can specify

How to add a file system to a container

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