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volumes is performed as well. Formatting an FSE medium means partition- ing it into FSE medium volumes, according to the parameters specified by the corresponding FSE media pool configuration. In case of FSE disk media formatting will create subdirectories for each of the volumes. The name of the directory will be the volume number.

Note:

FSE medium must be assigned to an FSE media pool before it can be formatted. If the medium is not empty, its formatting is allowed only if additional option – –forceis specified. Backup media need not be formatted if they are configured with a single data volume and no system volume.

•–F ,– –force

Set forced mode for FSE medium removal, formatting, initialization, mark- ing unreliable, marking unusable or marking "good" operation. There are three kinds of usage of this option in combination with other options. This option will:

–if the – –formatoption is specified, allow formatting of the FSE media that contain valid FSE user data.

Note:

FSE medium volumes that store valid FSE user data are the vol- umes which:

*store some data that is referenced by the belonging File System Catalog (FSC);

*belong to an FSE media pool which is currently assigned to an FSE partition;

*have the parameter Used[%] greater than zero in the output of the

command fsemedium – –list – –volume .

FSE medium volumes that do not store valid FSE user data are the volumes for which any of the above criteria is not met.

–if the – –initoption is specified as the first option after the command name, allow initialization of the FSE medium volumes that contain valid FSE user data.

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