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Creating a new file system – Grass Valley K2 Storage System Instruction Manual v.3.2 Sep.24 2007 User Manual

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September 7, 2007

K2 Storage System Instruction Manual

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Creating a new file system

g. Close the Progress Report and repeat these steps for other unbound disks. If

specified by your system design, you can bind some disks as Hot Spares, as
explained in

“Binding Hot Spare drives” on page 751

. When you are done, if

you did not bind any extra Hot Spares, you should have the following results:

For Level three storage you should have three RAID 5 RANKs of five disks each
on a RAID storage device. For each optional Expansion chassis, you would have
an additional three RAID 5 RANKs of five disks each. If using RAID 6, RANKs
are six disks each.

h. Click

Close

in Progress Report window.

3. Restart the K2 Media Server.

NOTE: Make sure start up processes on the K2 Media Server are complete before
proceeding.

4. Continue with the next procedure

“Creating a new file system”

.

Creating a new file system

1. In Storage Utility, click

Tools | Make New File System

. The Setting dialog box

opens.