2. Shell Method 1:
Open terminal shell and type /sbin/fdisk –l
This will list the mounted disk devices.
Look for an un-partitioned disk of the expected size.
Example:
Disk /dev/sdd: 4294.9 GB, 4294967296000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522166 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk /dev/sdd doesn't contain a valid partition table
In the example above the disk is /dev/sdd and it is 4294.9 GB (4TB).
Shell Method 2:
Open terminal shell and type “dmesg”. This command will print the recent
device activity, including the discovery of new devices. Look for the volume
name that was mounted with TerraBlock Manager. It should look something
like this:
Vendor: Facilis Model: (volume name) Rev: 1.0
Type: Direct-Access Ansi SCSI revision: 05
SCSI Device sd~: (block count)
SCSI Device sd~: drive cache: write through SCSI Device sdc: (block count) SCSI Device
sd~: drive cache: write through
sd~: sd~1
Note: ~ denotes the letter, b through z (a is the system drive), in the order the devices were
recognized by the Linux OS
Record the label of the device you mounted with the TerraBlock Manager (example:
sdh) and go to step 3.
3. Once you have determined the device label of the Volume, it can then be
partitioned. To create a partition on the volume follow the steps below:
Note: the volume must be mounted writable.
PARTED Method (recommended):
Note: This is the required method when creating Single-user Write
volumes greater than 2TB in size.
a. As ROOT, run the following command: /sbin/parted /dev/sd~
(Replace the ‘~’ with the device label you obtained in the
previous steps).
b. In PARTED enter the following commands (parted) unit TB – set
the unit value to terabytes.
c. (parted) mklabel gpt – applies a GUID partition label
d. (parted) mkpart primary 0 -0 – create a primary partition using
all available space.
e. (parted) print – Prints the partition information. Verify the
partition information is as expected for the disk device.
f. (parted) q – quit parted
FDISK Method:
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