Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Software Users Guide for Linux

Creating File Systems for HDLM (When Volume Management
Software Is Not Used)
This section describes how to build a file system in an HDLM-managed device
without using volume management software.
Mounting a File System
To mount an HDLM-managed device as a file system by specifying the
logical device file name for an HDLM device:
1. Create a file system by using an HDLM device.
If the file system already exists, skip to step 2.
Note that the file systems supported by HDLM are ext2, ext3, ext4, GFS2,
ReiserFS, VxFS, and xfs. For details about creating a file system, see
Creating a File System on page 3-201.
2. Create a directory on which to mount the file system.
# mkdir /mnt/hdlm
In this example, the command creates /mnt/hdlm to be used for the
mount point.
3. Mount the file system.
Execute a command such as the following:
# mount /dev/sddlmaa /mnt/hdlm
In this example, the command mounts /dev/sddlmaa (the logical device
file name for an HDLM device) /mnt/hdlm.
Creating a File System
The file systems supported by HDLM are ext2, ext3, ext4, GFS2, ReiserFS,
VxFS, and xfs. The following example shows how to create an ext2 file
system in /dev/sddlmaa1.
Creating an HDLM Environment
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Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager (for Linux®) User Guide