Saving work on a hard disk

[liem_ph]

Dear Members

I am still very new to this distro, and able to setup the front node and compute nodes, and tested several benchmark problems. It is a great distro. I really enjoy the easiness to setup a cluster with this distro. Since I am now also trying to develope my own MPI programs, I would like to save my work on a hard disk, where in the tutorial it must be formatted in ext2 or ext3. My front node has a brand new hard disk and I plan to use it, however, how to format this hard disk from the front node ? Or I have to do it with other tools ?

Thanks in advance.

Liem PH

[Michael Creel]

Sorry, this feature gets no support from me. It's only provided as a convenience for advanced users.

[eropp]

try type in console
sudo /sbin/fdisk /dev/sda

[Michael Creel]

fdisk is already installed. However, I don't recommend using PelicanHPC for partitioning hard disks. I would install a general purpose distro to the hard disk, and take care of partitioning while doing that. There are also live CDs that are oriented towards that sort of thing. http://partedmagic.com/ comes to mind. I have never used it, so this is not an endorsement, just a reminder that specialized tools are available.