This topic discuses how to manage your Linux® drives using iSeries™ Navigator and CL commands.
You can manage Linux disk drive operations using the iSeries Navigator - Integrated Server Administration - All Virtual Disks interface.
You can manage Linux disk drive operations using the Work with Network Server Storage Spaces (WRKNWSSTG) CL command through the i5/OS™ command-line interface. The WRKNWSSTG CL command displays a list of the Linux and Windows® storage spaces, and is similar to the Integrated Server Administration - All Virtual Disks option of iSeries Navigator.
In addition to listing the storage spaces, this display shows additional information for each storage space, including:
| Label | Description |
|---|---|
| % Used | The percentage of the storage space used |
| Size | The size of the storage space in megabytes |
| Server | The name of the NWSD that the storage space is currently linked to |
| Drive | The link sequence number of the drive in terms of fixed or dynamic links |
| Link Type | The link type (fixed or dynamic). A Linux server sees statically linked (*FIX) drives before dynamically linked (*DYN) drives. The Linux server sees statically linked drives in the order specified by the Drive parameter. The Linux server sees dynamically linked drives in the order specified by the Drive parameter. |
| Format | The nominal format of the storage space A drive that
has not been formatted by Linux shows up in green screen with the nominal format
you specified when you created the drive (*FAT, *FAT32, *NTFS or *OPEN). It
is a nominal format because, in reality, the drive must be formatted by Linux before
it can be used. We recommend that you specify *OPEN as the nominal
format. The actual Linux format is not reported. This is because the implementation of Linux integration support does not know about Linux formats such as ext2 and ext3. Given that we recommend that you always create storage spaces using the *OPEN format, all Linux drives should appear as *OPEN whether they are formatted by Linux or not. The exceptions are the system and installation drives that are always reported by the Linux integration code as *FAT32 and *FAT respectively. |
| Access | The type of access for this storage space. Read/write (*UPDATE) is the only option supported for Linux. |
| ASP | The Auxiliary Storage Pool (ASP) in which the storage space was created. This can be the system ASP, a user ASP, or an independent ASP. |