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# mke2fs –j –L mpio –v /dev/mapper/mpio

mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)

Filesystem label=mpio

OS type: Linux

Block size=4096 (log=2)

Fragment size=4096 (log=2)

6557152 inodes, 13109760 blocks

655488 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user

First data block=0

Maximum filesystem blocks=4294967296

401 block groups

32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group

16352 inodes per group

Superblock backups stored on blocks:

32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736,

1605632, 2654208,

4096000, 7962624, 11239424

Writing inode tables: done

Creating journal (32768 blocks): done

Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

This filesystem will be automatically checked every 37 mounts

or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to

override.

4) Mount the volume and verify the volume size with the ‘df’ command. You could

also reboot the server and verify that the volume is mounted correctly at boot time:

# mount -t ext3 /dev/mapper/mpio /mnt/mpio

# df

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00

50786940 3615548 44549952 8% /

/dev/sda1 101086 12538 83329 14% /boot

tmpfs 8216020 0 8216020 0% /dev/shm

/dev/mapper/mpio 51615928 184272 48809704 1% /mnt/mpio

Summary

This technical report described the configuration of a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and

a Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage array in both single-path I/O and multi-path I/O

deployment environments. The test configuration was described and procedures for

common storage administration tasks were provided.