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Avago Technologies MegaRAID SATA 150-4 (523) User Manual

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Capacity Expansion under the Linux Operating System

6-3

Version 2.0

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Step 11. Type

w

to write the configuration to disk.

Fdisk leaves you at a Linux command prompt.

Step 12. Reboot the system.

Step 13. After the system has rebooted from a command prompt, type

fdisk –l

again to verify the partition is there and can be seen

by the system.

Step 14. Open a command prompt and type

mkfs /dev/sd* *

.

Step 15. Add the number of the partition that was created to the end of

the device name (such as

/dev/sda1

and

/dev/sdb2

).

This creates a default Linux file system on the newly-created
partition.

Step 16. Perform the following steps to mount the partition.

a. To create a mount point, type:

mkdir /[

any name].

b. To mount the drive, type:

/mount /dev/sd**

/

[

any name].