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Formatting Removable Disk Cartridge in FAT32

You can format a removable disk cartridge in FAT32, on Linux platforms.

Procedure

  1. Attach the drive to a Linux box and run fdisk \-l. Verify that OS can see the device path. If the device is visible, you will be able to see the device path (for example, like \/dev\/sdb).

  2. Run the fdisk command (for example, fdisk \/dev\/sdb) to get the list of option available on the device. Press 'm' to get the list. Press 'p' to see the partition table of the device.

  3. If there is no partition present in the device go to Step 5.

  4. If partitions are present, delete the partition by pressing ‘d’. Press ‘p’ and verify that partition got deleted.

  5. Press 'n' to add new partition. Press 'p' to select primary partition. Enter partition number, first cylinder and Last cylinder. You can keep the default values (specified in bracket) for these fields.

  6. Press 'p' to print the partition table and verify that partition got created. By default Linux partition gets created as indicated by system column when you print the partition table.

  7. Select FAT32 to change the Linux partition to FAT32. Press ‘l’ to see the list of hex codes corresponding to partition system id. Press ‘c’ to select WIN95 FAT32 (LBA).

    Press ‘p’ to see the partition table and verify that the system type and system id has been changed to reflect FAT32

  8. Press ‘w’ to write partition table to disk and exit.

  9. Run fdisk –l and verify that a partition (for example, \/dev\/sdb1) has been created.

  10. Run the mkfs command (for example, mkfs –t vfat \/dev\/sdb1) to make the FAT32 file system.

Removable Disk Drives - Support Information

  • For information on MediaAgents that support this device, see the Devices section in MediaAgents - Supported Features, Agents and Devices.

  • Contact your software provider for a list of Removable Disk Drives (manufacturer, model) that are supported.

  • Windows MediaAgents supports the default cartridge format - NTFS.

  • For Linux MediaAgents, removable disk cartridge must be reformatted to FAT32. See Formatting Removable Disk Cartridge in FAT32 for instructions.

  • Removable Disk Drives are supported on physical MediaAgent computers. Removable Disk Drives cannot be supported on MediaAgents installed in a virtual machine (VM), as the hypervisor software does not share USB ports with VMs.

Removable Disk Drives Considerations

On Linux platforms, when media from a removable SATA disk drive is manually ejected, the Operating System might have problems in sensing the media when reloaded. To ensure proper access, use one of the following methods to unload/eject the media.

  • From the CommCell Console, right-click the media and then click Unload.

  • Use the Operating System command to eject the media. For example, eject /dev/devicename.

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