Adding Partitions - NEC Express Server Express5800 Series Installation Manual

Chapter 1 Installing Operating System
3.3

Adding Partitions

Perform the following procedure to create an additional partition in a free space of a hard disk drive installed in
slot0 of CPU/IO module 0 and CPU/IO module 1. In the following example, a RAID1 device (/dev/md/data) is
created in a partition of 10GB and that partition is set as "/mnt/data".
1. Log in to the server as the root user. If you login with graphical mode, select [Others...] to login.
2. Execute the following command to set the slot 0 of the CPU/IO 0.
# parted /dev/disk/by-dpid/disk-104001
GNU Parted 3.1
Using /dev/sdq
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted)
3. Execute the print sub command to check the partition status.
(parted) print
Model: HGST HUC156030CSS200 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdq: 300GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start
1
2
3
4
5
4. Execute the mkpart sub command to create the partition.
(parted) mkpart
Partition name? []?
File system type? [ext2]? * Input the <Enter> key.
Start? 61.5GB
End? 71.5GB
50
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If the partition is wrongly operated, the system may not start up or data may be
Important
lost. Be sure to back up the important data before starting the work. Especially,
the results of the sub command executed by the parted command will be
reflected to the disk immediately. Take extreme care when operating it.
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LVM is not supported.
The (parted) command prompt appears, and the internal command of parted can be
Tips
received.
End Size File system Name Flags
1049kB 17.2GB 17.2GB
17.2GB 25.8GB 8598MB
25.8GB 26.9GB 1075MB ext4
26.9GB 27.1GB 211MB fat16
27.1GB 61.5GB 34.4GB
* Input the desired partition name.
* Input the partition start position.
* Input the partition end position.
The unit of the partition start/end is MB. GB can be used as a unit as described above.
Tips
Express5800/R320e-E4, R320e-M4 Installation Guide (Linux)
3. Procedure for Changing the System Environment Setting
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