HP StorageWorks File System Extender Software V3.4 CLI reference (T3648-96013, October 2006)

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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 – –force is 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 – –format option 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 – –init option 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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