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Create a new partition to be exposed as the local storage pool. Use [[fdisk]]. For this example, the partition will be referred to as /dev/sda7.
Create a new partition to be exposed as the local storage pool. Use [[fdisk]]. For this example, the partition will be referred to as /dev/sda7.
Create a file system on the newly allocated partition, as described in [[mkfs.xfs]] or [[mkfs.ext4]].

Revision as of 14:52, 26 June 2017

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Overview

This article explains how to expose a pre-formatted block device partition as storage pool, using virsh.


Do not use this procedure to configure an entire disk as storage pool. Follow this procedure for that Disk-based Storage Pool Configuration.

Procedure

Create a new partition to be exposed as the local storage pool. Use fdisk. For this example, the partition will be referred to as /dev/sda7.

Create a file system on the newly allocated partition, as described in mkfs.xfs or mkfs.ext4.