Dell POWERVAULT MD3600F - Manual (Page 224)

224 Configuration: Device Mapper Multipath for Linux
The following examples provide information about the general mapping formats:
On RHEL hosts, a partition node has the format
/dev/mapper/mpathp, where is the alphabetic number for the
multipathing device, is the partition number for this device.
On SLES 11.x hosts, a partition node has the format
/dev/mapper/mpath-part, where is letter(s) assigned to the
multipathing device and is the partition number.
On SLES 10.3 hosts, a partition node has the format
/dev/mapper/mpath_part, where is the letter(s) assigned to
the multipathing device and is the partition number.
NOTE: After creating a partition on a multipathing device, all I/O operations,
including file system creation, raw I/O and file system I/O, must be done through the
partition node, and not through the multipathing device nodes.
Create a File System on a Device Mapper Partition
Use the standard mkfs command to create the file system on the newly
created Device Mapper partition
For example:
# mkfs –t /dev/mapper/
node>
where is the partition on which the file system is created.
Mount a Device Mapper Partition
Use the standard mount command to mount the Device Mapper partition:
# mount /dev/mapper/
Ready for Use
The newly created virtual disks created on the MD3600f Series array are now
setup and ready to be used. Future reboots automatically finds multipathing
devices along with their partitions.
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