There are multiple reasons you would want to repartition a secondary hard drive for use with NetMAX. We are most commonly asked this when people want to set up rsync mirroring on a Toshiba Magnia Server. The second drive should be formatted with no volume label in order to be used as a mirror for the first drive.
- Boot the machine with the second hard drive installed.
- Obtain console access to the machine either via ssh or loging in at the server console.
- Switch users to root:
su -
- Run the fdisk command:
fdisk device (where device is /dev/hdb or /dev/hdx corresponding to the second hard drive)
- Use this tool to delete all the partitions. Press p to view the partitions, and d to delete them.
- When you are finished, press 'w' to write the table to disk and exit.
- Reboot the machine and you should be good to go.
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