Dell EMC PowerVault MD 34XX/38XX Series Storage Arrays Administrator's Guide

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Create fdisk partition on multipath device node

The fdisk command allows creation of partition space for a file system on the newly scanned and mapped virtual disks that have been presented to Device Mapper.

To create a partition with the multipathing device nodes /dev/mapper/mpath<x>, for example, use the following command:

# fdisk /dev/mapper/mpath<x>

where mpath<x> is the multipathing device node on which you want to create the partition.

NOTE: The <x> value is an alphanumeric operating system-dependent format. The corresponding value for mapped virtual disks can be seen using the previously run multipath command. See your operating system documentation for additional information about fdisk.