Cisco Systems Surveillance Media Server Creating partitions in Red Hat Enterprise, Procedure

Before You Install

Creating partitions in Red Hat Enterprise 4

Open a shell session and run the following commands to create a repository. The Ext3 file system should be used to format the repository.

Procedure

Step 1 Create new partitions:

Shell> parted -- /dev/sdb mkpart primary ext3 0 -0

Step 2 Use mkfs to make the partitions:

Shell> mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1

Note: This command destroys all data that resides on that partition.

Step 3 Create a new directory.

shell> mkdir /media1

Note: Each volume needs a unique directory for a mount point.

Step 4 Add a new line to /etc/fstab, substituting the appropriate device name and mount point:

dev/sdb1 /media1 ext3 defaults 1 2

Step 5 Mount the newly created partitions. (Usage: mount /dev/sdb1 /media1.) Step 6 Change ownership of the mounted partitions to nobody.nobody:

shell> chown nobody: /media1

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