Dell PowerVault ME4 Series Storage System Deployment Guide

Create a Linux file system on the volumes

Perform the following steps to create and mount an XFS file system:

1. From the multipath -l command output, identify the device multipath to target when creating a file system.
   In this example, the first time that multipath is configured, the first device is /dev/mapper/mpatha and it corresponds to sg block devices /dev/sdb and /dev/sdd.

   NOTE:Run the lsscsi command to list all SCSI devices from the Controller/Target/Bus/LUN map. This command also identifies block devices per controller.
2. Run the mkfs.xfs /dev/mapper/mpatha command to create an xfs type file system.
3. Run the mkdir /mnt/VolA command to create a mount point for this file system with a referenced name, such as VolA.
4. Run themount /dev/mapper/mpatha /mnt/VolA command to mount the file system.
5. Begin using the file system as any other directory to host applications or file services.
6. Repeat steps 1–5 for each provisioned volume in PowerVault Manager. For example, the device /dev/mapper/mpathb corresponds to sg block devices /dev/sdc and /dev/sde .