Table 2-51. vflashpartition Subcommand Options (continued)

Option Description

-t <type> Create a partition of type <type>. <type> must be:

•empty – Create an empty partition. The following options are valid with the empty type:

•-s <size> – Partition size in MB.

•-f <type> – Format type for the partition based on the type of file system. Valid options are RAW, FAT16, FAT32, EXT2, or EXT3.

•image – Create a partition using an image relative to iDRAC. The following options are valid with the image type:

•-l <path> – Specifies the remote path relative to iDRAC. The path can be on a mounted drive:

SMB path: //<ip or domain>/<share_name> /<path_to_image>

NFS path: <ipaddress>:/<path_to_image>

•-u <user> – Username for accessing the remote image.

•-p <password> – Password for accessing the remote image.

Options valid only with status action

-a

Displays the status of operations on all existing partitions.

 

 

Examples

•To create a 20MB empty partition:

racadm vflashpartition create -i 1 -o drive1 -t empty -e HDD -f fat16 -s 20

•To create a partition using an image file on a remote system:

racadm vflashpartition create –i 1 –o drive1 –e HDD –t image –l //myserver/sharedfolder/foo.iso –u root –p mypassword

NOTE: This command is case sensitive for the image file name extension. If the file name extension is in upper case, for example FOO.ISO instead of FOO.iso, then the command returns a syntax error.

•To delete a partition:

racadm vflashpartition delete -i 1

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