Avago Technologies 3ware 9650SE-12ML (Channel) - Manual (Page 125)

Creating a Hot Spare
www.3ware.com 113
Use of the -j option to turn on journaling is recommended for large
partitions.
For example:
mkfs -j /dev/sda1
If the partition is over 2TB, use parted to also make the file system:
parted /dev/sda1
(parted) mkfs
Partition number? 1
File system? [ext2]?
writing per-group metadata (begins)...0% to 100% is
displayed)
(parted) quit (when completed)
5 Mount the volume:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
To partition, format, and mount under FreeBSD
1 Boot the system and log in as root.
2 Open a terminal window.
3 Partition the unit:
fdisk -BI /dev/da0;
disklabel /dev/da0 | disklabel -B -R -r da0
4 Create or make the file system:
newfs /dev/da0c
5 Mount the volume:
mount /dev/da0c /mnt
You can also use sysinstall to format and partition the unit.
Creating a Hot Spare
You can designate an available drive as a hot spare. If a redundant unit
degrades and a hot spare the size of the degraded disk (or larger) is available,
the hot spare will automatically replace the failed drive in the unit without
user intervention.
It is a good idea to create a hot spare after you create a redundant unit.
Note: When a hot spare replaces a failed drive, an event notification is generated
and appears in the list of alarms in 3DM. You can also have 3DM send you an email
about this. See “Managing E-mail Event Notification” on page 82.