ADIC 2.2 manual Label Drives on Irix, # /usr/cvfs/bin/cvlabel

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Label Drives on IRIX

You must label each drive to be used by StorNext FS. A new drive needs to be labeled only one time. Drive labeling can be performed from any StorNext client that has a Fibre Channel connection to the drive.

The process of disk labeling re-partitions the drives. If you select an CAUTION incorrect drive, you may lose data.

To label a drive:

Step 1 From the system prompt on any StorNext FS client, display a list of connected drives. Enter:

# /usr/cvfs/bin/cvlabel -1

Step 2 From the output information, identify any drives that are unused or do not have a recognized Volume Type and write down their associated device names.

Identify any drives that already contain a recognized Volume Type. CAUTION Do not write a label to these drives or you may lose data.

Step 3 Create /usr/cvfs/config/cvlabels from the copy of the StorNext FS label file example. Enter:

#cd/usr/cvfs/config

#cp ../examples/cvlabels.example ./cvlabels

Step 4 Edit /usr/cvfs/config/cvlabels so that it contains a list of StorNext FS label names that correspond to the device names of the drives captured in Step 2.

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