HP NetRAID-4M Controller - Manual (Page 61)

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Working with Disks
C:ID:L Device Type Blocks Bytes/Block Usage Shared
------ ----------- --------- ----------- ---------------- ------
2:01:0 Disk 17938986 512 Initialized NO
Working with Partitions
A partition is a contiguous area of a physical disk that makes up
some or all of a container. Partitions are created and managed by the
controller as by-products of container creation or rebuild operations.
That is, when the controller creates a container, the controller
automatically converts freespace on each disk in the container into
one or more partitions.
A partition is identified by the disk on which it resides, its disk
offset, and its size. In the following example, the
disk show
partition command shows a 20.0MB partition at offset 64.0KB on
SCSI device (0,2,0).
HPN0> disk show partition
Executing: disk show partition
Scsi Partition Container MultiLevel
C:ID:L Offset:Size Num Type Num Type R/W
------ ------------- --- ------ --- ------ ---
2:01:0 64.0KB: 20.0MB 0 Volume 0 None RW
Note: A partition can only be used by one container at a
time.
The following sections explain how to administer partition
attributes.
Understanding Partition Attributes
Partition attributes are characteristics of partitions that you can
administer or display using the CLI. Table 4-3 lists the partition
attributes and related CLI commands.