Dell DX6000 User Manual

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Disaster Recovery

4 In the Allowable Drives field, de-select the sdb volume.
5 Create a 10 GB restore partition of the file system type physical volume

(LVM) within the sda and click

OK.

6 Select /dev/sdb1 from the Device list and click Edit.
7 Select Format partition as ext3.
8 In the Mount Point field, enter /u01 and click OK.

The /u01 mount point occupies the entire space of the sdb.

9 Click Next.

The /u01 mount path can also be configured after installing the operating

system.
To configure the mount path after installing the operating system:

1 Identify the disk to be formatted. To identify the disk to be formatted, run

the following command:
fdisk -l | grep '^Disk'

2 Create a partition on the /dev/sdb block device using parted:

parted /dev/sdb

3 Create a gpt label on the block device:

(parted) mklabel

Yes/No: Yes

New disk label type? [gpt]? gpt

4 Create a partition that consumes the entire available space on /dev/sdb:

(parted) mkpart primary ext3 0 -1
Once the partition is created, exit using the following command:

(parted) quit

5 Create a file system on the formatted partition table. For example, run the

following command:
mkfs.ext3 -m1 /dev/sdb1

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