Specifications

MDR User Guide  37 
Examples:  format-disk 4 
format-disk 4,6 
format-disk 4-7 
format-disk 4-11 
format-disk 2,6-8,10 
format-disk all 
help or h or ? 
Syntax: 
help [<Command>] 
Description:  Display help information for MDR Shell commands. 
If <Command> is not specified, then a list of all the commands is displayed. 
If 
<Command> is specified, then a help text for the <Command> is displayed. 
Examples:  help 
    help new-recording 
  help new-rec 
list-fc-devices 
Syntax: 
list-fc-devices 
Description:  List the Fibre Channel devices (disks and disk groups). 
Important information relative to each device is indicated as well as the devices included 
in the default group (marked as 'Default') and the devices included in the current group 
(marked as 'Connected')". 
Example: 
list-fc-devices 
new-recording 
Syntax: 
new-recording [<Blocks> [<BlockSize>]] [<InsertTag>] 
Description:  Allocate disk space for a new MDR recording. 
The arguments 
<Blocks> and <BlockSize> specify the size of the new recording. The 
size is given in 
<Blocks> (as a decimal number) of size <BlockSize>. 
The possible values for 
<BlockSize> are K or k (for KiB), M or m (for MiB), G or g 
(for GiB). If 
<BlockSize> is omitted then the block size is set by default to one mega 
binary byte (1MiB). 
The argument <InsertTag> specifies if tags should be inserted during record operation. 
The possible values for <InsertTag> are TAG (Insert tags during record operation) and 
NOTAG (do not insert tags during record operation). 
The MDR Server will suggest a new recording name by appending _
n to the current 
recording name (where n is a number that will be incremented for each new command). 
The start block of the new recording will be moved to the block following the current 
recording block. 
Without any parameters, the size will be fixed at the first free amount of space found on 
the disk subsystem. If the 
<Blocks> parameter is present then the MDR Server tries to 
find a space big enough on the disk subsystem to contain the recording. 
If there is not enough space, the new command fails and no changes are made. 
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